Why Has Cubicles For Collaboration Become A Popular Workstation?

Why Has Cubicles For Collaboration Become A Popular Workstation?: Cubicles for collaboration have become very popular over the last decade.  Derived partly from the open concept office desin, and derived partly from the need to conserve floor space, collaborative workstations are built to encourage communication and teamwork.  These cubicles can be used to pair employees together, create small groups to work on projects, or create synergistic energy between members of an entire department. With Cubicle world, worksation size and design are always based upon task completion requirements.  Form follows function, because space plans are created to facilitate those activities that drive results and earn the organization revenue

While teamwork is crucial, we avoid building cubicles for collaboration with no boundaries at all.  Studies have shown that workers cannot concentrate very well in purely open concept office environments.  Almost everyone is distracted by the constant movement and noise in the surrounding environment. Some also take too many liberties with speech, becoming incessantly chatty with off topic conversations.  Still others feel anxious with a complete lack of privacy, fearing that others are watching them, looking at their monitors ,or suspecting supervisors of micromanaging them.

None of these behaviors engenders profitability in a workforce, so Cubicle World makes it a point to construct cubicles for collaboration that feature a blend of private work space and public conferencing areas.  On of the more popular designs we often employee is a modified L-shaped deign with a rounded corner on the short end that extends out between two seated employees. Some office furniture companies call this a “peninsula desk” because it resembles a peninsula of land jutting out into the ocean.  A desk mounted partition separates the front of the desk system between the two individual workers. However, the un-partitioned extension is a shared space where both parties can confer simply by pushing back their chairs and starting a conference