Silicon Valley Rethinks The Cubicle Office
October 15th, 2007
Why Silicon Valley
Is Rethinking
The Cubicle Office
Intel and Its Peers Aim
To Use Space Better,
Improve Productivity
By DON CLARK
October 15, 2007; Page B9
Intel Corp. is often credited, or blamed, for popularizing the office cubicle. Now it is joining some prominent Silicon Valley peers in reconsidering the concept.
The chip maker, emulating experiments at companies such as Cisco Systems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., is planning tests in three U.S. locations of new office layouts. Plans include tables where several users can plop down with laptop computers, multiworker desks, and lounge-like settings with armchairs — all a far cry from the mazelike grid of tall gray cubicles in most Intel buildings.
