The cubicle, or cube, is today's equivalent to the office but instead of four walls and a door to close, it's a desk surrounded by three or four low, portable walls. Companies today have more cubes ...

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, ...