Cubicles were the hallmark of a dull, soul-sucking job. Now they seem like paradise lost. In a memorable montage from the 1999 workplace satire "Office Space," Peter Gibbons, a fed-up office drone ...

The cubicle turns 50 years ... to improve on the open-bullpen office that he had grown up with. He designed the "Action Office," which had a huge desk, a space for making phone calls, a vertical ...