ABSTRACT
Ever since individuals began working in offices, like in the Uffizi mentioned in Chapter 4, one “constant” in the office was-and is-change. Conditions for workers changed from those stuffy inner chambers, unlit and dank, where workers stooped over their tasks and emerged from a day of toil with sallow skin and gloomy expressions, through the “Mad Men”-esque era of corner offices and secretarial bays, and then to the cubicle landscape that was intended to provide privacy and personal space, while also allowing for relatively easy and open communications.
