Subj : Re: Real Modem on VOIP?
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : Mike Powell
Date : Sun Sep 13 2026 04:00 pm

KW> -=> Mike Powell wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-
KW> 
KW>  MP> Proper cubicles were not bad.  However, the craze for chest-high and
KW>  MP> chin-high walls really defeated the purpose of having a cube.
KW> 
KW> Agreed. those feel more like pens than cubes. All of the wasted space
KW> and none of the privacy!

The management, at the places I was at that had them, liked them because it 
allowed them to walk up on people without standing in their cube-doorway to 
watch them.  Those were the chest-high walls that even featured "cut-outs" 
between cubes that were built next to each other that made that section of wall 
barely above waist-high.  Most people put up white boards over those openings 
so the were not constantly seeing their co-worker moving about out of the 
corner of their eyes.

Another manager later said he liked the chin-high ones because you could "shout 
over the walls" and collaborate.  IMHO, that made the environment too noisy to 
ever get much done.  Luckily (??), COVID came along and made sure that, even 
when some of us returned to the office 3/5 days of the week, the office was 
still mostly empty and rarely too noisy.

Mike

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