Open offices were meant to be the antidote to the woes of cubicle dwelling — a friendlier ... became the world’s largest open office layout, a single-floor space housing about 2,800 employees ...

Cubicles were the hallmark of a dull, soul-sucking job. Now they seem like paradise lost. In a memorable montage from the 1999 workplace satire "Office Space," Peter Gibbons, a fed-up office drone ...