Living with Less: Ditching The Cubicle For the Open Office

Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times

In this season's Mad Men, Duck Phillips described Grey Advertising's offices as "a Penn Station toilet with Venetian blinds." Even their chief creative officer describes it in the New York Times as "a symbol of what advertising used to be: very slow and not very nimble." But employees are going to have to be nimble now, just to avoid running into each other; they have ditched the cubicles and condensed their operations from 26 floors to just six, from almost everyone having an office to just three in th...Read the full story on TreeHugger