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23 April 2014updated 28 Jun 2021 4:45am

Why do our offices make us so miserable?

The unhappy history of the workplace.

By Juliet Lapidos

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. 

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