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Studies Indicate Office Cubicles Lead to Inefficiency, Stress.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2001
Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 13--Studies in Europe and America suggest the cubicle concept now prevalent in most offices around the world leads to inefficient and disgruntled workers.
Where cubicles have replaced walls, stress and motivation climb and fall accordingly while the low-level noise that can be heard all around causes most humans to sit extremely -- and unnaturally -- still.
"This, in turn, can lead to musculo-skeletal injuries," wrote Cornell University psychologist Gary Evans in the latest issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology.
Other studies at the University of Munich and the University of Lyon in France suggest that a return to the old order -- enclosed offices with a door --...
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