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Create A Cubicle Mansion In 5 Easy Steps

7:00AM April 2, 2011 | Keith Pandolfi This Old House online

Tired of having to remember how many cubicles in from the edge of the cluster yours is? Give your space some flair with this great weekend project from This Old House. More »


Cameras

Is The Boss Coming? Up Periscope!

4:20AM May 14, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Working from home, the postman’s the only person I have to watch out for, so cubicle dwellers will have greater need for a boss-watching periscope than I do. Using a few supplies you’ll be closing the Gizmodo tab well within time. More »


Baby’s First Cubicle: The Most Depressing Toy Ever?

4:00AM April 15, 2010 | Adam Frucci

It’s all about expectation management, you see. If you make your kid think he can be President, he will grow up disappointed. Tell him he’s headed for a life as an office drone and at least he’ll be mentally prepared. More »


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Individual Air Conditioners In Cubicles Double Energy Efficiency (Tell Your Boss!)

8:00PM December 8, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Hey, office drones. The next time you’re pissed and shivering because Jeff in accounting turned the thermostat down to 18 again, just show him this article: Turns out individual climate control units in cubicles can save up to 50% energy. More »


Gadgets

The Anatomy of the Office Prank

1:40AM October 1, 2008 | Mark Wilson

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The casual office employee stalks his coworker with the intensity of a lion hunting a wildebeest on the African savanna. Never rushed, always contemplated, the average office prank is executed with all the razor precision found in a well-pressed shirt.

In part one of our examination of the office prank, we study the first of many techniques office workers use to triumph over co-adversaries. To those with soft stomachs, the gruesome techniques used to humiliate one’s peers with cardboard might be better left unseen.

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Man Travels Back in Time to 1738, Brings Laptop and LCD Display With Him

2:20AM June 17, 2008 | Jason Chen

DVICE calls this the most luxurious office cubicle, but we see the world’s first time traveler. Here’s what we think: Mr. Jared Nelson discovered the secret of time travel. He then packed up his favourite gear, which includes his Dell laptop, an LCD display, headphones, a digital camera which he used to take this photo, his office phone (he likes teleconferencing?) and his leather chair that he swiped from the VP when Dan was on vacation.

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Entertainment

Security Cam Footage of Cubicle Rage to the Extreme is Every Cube Dweller’s Fantasy

12:28AM June 5, 2008 | Adam Frucci

This is a security cam video of a guy who, to put it lightly, is sick of working in a cubicle farm. If you’re looking to get yourself fired in a way that’ll legally prevent you from ever entering the office or interacting with any of your former coworkers again, with a free room at the county correctional facility tossed in for good measure, throwing a computer monitor at a coworker and then systematically destroying the entire office is a pretty good way to do so. On the upside, showing your boss this video might be a good way to get him to upgrade you to an LCD monitor. They hurt less when thrown, one would assume. Update: Hit the jump for video from another angle, a co-worker’s mobile phone, in colour and with sound.

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Google’s Zurich HQ: Office Fun For Everyone… Who Works There, Anyway

9:15AM April 7, 2008 | Gizmodo US Edition

Ever looked around your office and thought “surely there’s a better way than this soulless cubicle hell?” Well, there probably isn’t. Unless you happen to work for Google in their Swiss HQ, that is. Because, frankly, their new office is awe-inspiringly amazing: it’s an exercise in lateral-thinking, creativity-run-wild interior design. Slides to the canteen, cable-car meeting rooms, beanbags, fake snow, a multitude of colours. Check it out… you’ll be as filled with envy as an envious person with a degree in enviousness.

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