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Cubicles Vs Open Spaces

Cubicles offer privacy as well as accessibility. These modular structures have been around for some time, letting managers or team leaders keep an eye on employees.

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Cubicles have been gradually fading from offices in the last 15 years. Both cubicles and open spaces have their benefits and drawbacks. Based on the type of business and office space, one may better fit the bill than the other.

Cubicles: Pros

Cubicles offer privacy as well as accessibility. These modular structures have been around for some time, letting managers or team leaders keep an eye on employees. Cubicles offer flexibility and let the organization set teams quickly and easily with a view to helping employees communicate and work in collaboration on a project requiring ideas and suggestions. 

Cubicles: Cons

Cubicles offer employees a rather cramped space to work. Most of these modular systems provide very limited space for each employee. With corporations putting sincere efforts to make the most of office space, cubicles look confined and impersonal. 

Open Spaces: Pros 

Open spaces are economical because they maximize space and reduce furniture overhead. More workers can sit on the work floor compared to an office with cubicles. They reduce obstacles between team leaders and juniors, making senior managers and supervisors more approachable. Open spaces foster a sense of belonging, teamwork, support, creativity, and innovation. Media and advertising and IT companies in Silicon Valley have open office floors.

Open Spaces: Cons

Open spaces compromise on space and privacy. According to a poll conducted by Harvard Business Review, 74 percent of the participants are worried about privacy issues. Privacy does not exist on a shared table, especially when working on sensitive data.

Though companies are undergoing redesign from cubicles to open spaces, open offices are not the ultimate solution to privacy, innovation, and teamwork. It may work for a few industries, but cubicles will stay for their individual private spaces.


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