I read an article request of what its like to work in a cube.
http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/553160/20141438
Here are three things that I have noticed.
I work in the cubicle world at Dell and I have been there for 10 years so I know a thing or two about working in the cubicle nation. I have three things I would like to share.
1. During the ten years at Dell, I have been moved abbot 30 times. Every 6 months, a re-org happens, and cubes get switched. I gotten to the point where the only thing i keep on my desk is my laptop that I pack up every night.
2. In my building space is at a premium. So about 2 years ago facilities and management decided that all individual contributors will have half cubes, these are desk without walls. About a quarter the way through, it cost to much to reconfigure the desks, facilities and management abandoned the project. I was one of the unlucky few that got stuck in a tech small desk as a PM it is hard to do my job with all the distractions.
3. Looking at all the people in the desks as I walk up and down the aisles, the one thing that I notice are iPods. Yes iPods. Just about everyone on my floor has some sort of music playing device to keep out the distractions of the phone calls, conversations, and planning meetings that go on around them.
The cubicle nation is alive and well at Dell. There are times when I go to a conference room to escape and get some work done and to dream about an office of my own that has no shared printer and a closing door.
