Not so long ago, corporations were constantly shrinking the size of people's cubes to stuff yet another employee into the work space. Cubicle working has always had its drawbacks - lack of privacy, the noise and the pesky co-worker who always yelled over the cube wall to ask a question.
For many employees those problems are long gone. Many workers find that they are sans cube co-workers. Their floors are quiet as a church mouse. In many ways, it is what many workers earned for but experts are saying all those empty cubicles are very bad for morale.
You can read more at my post on BlogHer.
Turns out that "Empty Desk Syndrome" is not just a fancy catch phrase. A year ago the Asian American Journalists Association sent a group of students to an intensive four day journalism boot camp in Chicago. Brenna Kajikawa decided to spend some time at the Chicago Sun-Times. I could almost feel the tension, not from people bustling about, but from seeing so many empty desks due to layoffs. It was inspiring to envision myself working at the Sun-Times someday down the road, and yet it was also a reality check for me to actually see that the print industry is facing troubling times.
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