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I spent 55 hours last week sitting in a 6x6 box staring at a computer screen with a grey cloth backdrop. The nearest window was about 50 feet away on the opposite end of the floor.
I really need to find something that gets me out of the cubicle. I'm a financial analyst with an MBA. I don't mind the work. I just need something that lets me interact with people a little more, and that has a little more variety. Mostly I need something that allows me out of the cubicle prison. There has to be something. Suggestions -- please!
I spent 55 hours last week sitting in a 6x6 box staring at a computer screen with a grey cloth backdrop. The nearest window was about 50 feet away on the opposite end of the floor.
I really need to find something that gets me out of the cubicle. I'm a financial analyst with an MBA. I don't mind the work. I just need something that lets me interact with people a little more, and that has a little more variety. Mostly I need something that allows me out of the cubicle prison. There has to be something. Suggestions -- please!
In your field of work the choices are limited due to a poor choice of career on your part. You had to know that this job was a one way ticket to the inner sanctum of big business.
I actually kind of like cubicles. I've had four walled offices before and I felt isolated and out of touch with my colleagues. In a cube, I have enough personal space to have things laid out my way while I can still hear work related technical, political and gossip talk from the background.
I think more than anything it's the lack of natural light. I work for a rocket motor manufacturer, and the buildings were built in the '50s like a bunker. Like I said, the work isn't that bad. It's just the incessant sitting in the cubicle with no windows. I don't think people were made to do that.
Before cubicles existed, the people in them just sat at open desks.
So cubicle partitions are a vast improvement. And cubicles are not synonymous with a lack of daylight. In fact more cubicles generally mean more people have access to daylight, whereas private offices block the light from filtering into the depths of the office space.
That picture does make cubicles seem better. I'm okay with one as long as I can get up and move around whenever I want and I can. I think I'd prefer working outside, maybe on a nice beach because I like natural light.
Before cubicles existed, the people in them just sat at open desks.
In the UK this is still the model for many workplaces, sometimes even sharing a desk with a coworker.
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