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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Industrialization spurred the rise of clerks and a distinct workplace, apart from manual laborers entirely.
Chapter 3: As business progressed, office spaces expanded, ushering in the science of work efficiency and management.
Chapter 4: Skyscrapers emerged to stack offices vertically atop one another and provided workers with amenities to feel valued.
Chapter 5: In postwar years, a new office design emerged: the organic, human-centered office landscape.
Chapter 6: The office landscape’s noise led to open offices packed with cubicles.
Description
In Cubed (2014), you’ll discover that what you know as your office cubicle – that beige box so many workers worldwide toil in each day – is a fairly recent invention, despite its long history of development. These blinks will explain how the modern office came to be through a detailed account of the evolution of the workplace.
Who Should Listen
- Historians or sociologists interested in the evolution of the office-worker
- Employees and employers interested in management and workplace science