
Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace
Nikil Saval
Doubleday, 2014
Five days a week I commute to a skyscraper in the main business district of a large city and sit at a desk within whispering distance of another desk. Whatever the word “work” used to conjure, my version is now quite standard. About 40 million Americans make a living in some sort of cubicle.