Cubed
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53. Ibid., 40.
54. Quoted in Barbara Garson, The Electronic Sweatshop: How Computers Are Transforming the Office of the Future into the Factory of the Past (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988), 172.
55. Robert Howard, Brave New Workplace: America’s Corporate Utopias—How They Create Inequalities and Social Conflict in Our Working Lives (New York: Penguin, 1985), 102.
56. Karen Ho, Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009), 52.
57. Peril, Swimming in the Steno Pool, 194.
58. Ibid., 203.
59. Ibid.
60. Ethel Strainchamps, ed., Rooms with No View: A Woman’s Guide to the Man’s World of the Media (New York: Harper & Row, 1974), 12.
61. Anonymous worker quoted in Jean Tepperman, Not Servants, Not Machines: Office Workers Speak Out! (Boston: Beacon Press, 1976), 33.
62. Ibid., 63–64.
63. John Hoerr, We Can’t Eat Prestige: The Women Who Organized Harvard (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997), 47.
64. Tepperman, Not Servants, Not Machines, 64.
65. Quoted in Jefferson Cowie, Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (New York: New Press, 2010), 351–52.
66. Answers by 915 respondents to a survey conducted in Boston and Cleveland by Working Women Education Fund in the fall of 1980, quoted in Joel Makower, Office Hazards: How Your Job Can Make You Sick (Washington, D.C.: Tilden Press, 1981), 128.
67. Tepperman, Not Servants, Not Machines, 21.
68. Ibid.
8: THE OFFICE OF THE FUTURE
1. Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge (New York: Penguin Press, 2013), 43.
2. “The Office of the Future,” BusinessWeek, June 30, 1975, 40.
3. Ibid.
4. Juriaan van Meel, “The Origins of New Ways of Working: Office Concepts in the 1970s,” Facilities 29, no. 9/10 (2011): 361.
5. Ibid., 359.
6. Ibid.
7. Quoted in Juriaan van Meel and Paul Vos, “Funky Offices,” Journal of Corporate Real Estate 3, no. 4 (2011): 323.
8. Jack M. Nilles, Making Telecommuting Happen (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1994), xiii.
9. Howard, Brave New Workplace, 4.
10. “What Matters Is How Smart You Are,” BusinessWeek, August 25, 1997, 69.
11. David Manners and Tsugio Makimoto, Living with the Chip: How the Chip Affects Your Business, Your Family, Your Home, and Your Future (London: Chapman & Hall, 1995), 41.
12. Robert Reinhold, “Mixing Business and Pleasure for Profit in Silicon Valley,” New York Times, February 12, 1984.
13. Christopher Winks, “Manuscript Found in a Typewriter,” in Bad Attitude: The “Processed World” Anthology, ed. Chris Carlsson with Mark Leger (New York: Verso, 1990), 20.
14. John Markoff, “Where the Cubicle Is Dead,” New York Times, April 25, 1993.
15. William Scott, “Intel Corp. Serves as Role Model for Aerospace Companies in Transition,” Aviation Week and Space Technology, August 24, 1992, 60.
16. Intel Keynote Transcript: “Los Angeles Times 3rd Annual Investment Strategies Conference,” May 22, 1999, http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/speeches/cn052499.htm.
17. Intel Keynote Transcript: “Intel International Science and Engineering Fair,” May 9, 2001, http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/speeches/grove20010509.htm.
18. Douglas Coupland, Microserfs (New York: Regan Books, 1995), 16.
19. Ibid., 319.
20. Thomas J. Peters, Liberation Management: Necessary Disorganization for the Nanosecond Nineties (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992), 18.
21. Ibid., xxxiii–xxxiv.
22. Andrew Ross, No-Collar: The Humane Workplace and Its Hidden Costs (New York: Basic Books, 2003), 98–99.
23. Marisa Bowe and Darcy Cosper, “The Sharper Image: A Conversation with Craig Kanarick,” Interiors, October 2000, 105.
24. Roger Yee, “Connecting the Dots,” Interiors, October 2000, 61.
25. Quoted in Raul Barreneche, “Industry Non-standard,” Interiors, October 2000, 83.
26. Cliff Kuang, “The Secret History of the Aeron Chair,” Slate, November 5, 2012, http://www.slate.com/articles/life/design/2012/11/aeron_chair_history_herman_miller_s_office_staple_was_originally_designed.html.
27. “Virtual Chiat,” Wired, July 1994.
28. Randall Rothenberg, “A Eulogy for a Whiner: My Experience with Jay Chiat,” Advertising Age, April 29, 2002, http://adage.com/article/randall-rothenberg/eulogy-a-whiner/34339/.
29. Quoted in Thomas R. King, “Creating Chaos,” Wall Street Journal, April 17, 1995.
30. “Virtual Chiat.”
31. Ibid.
32. Leon Jaroff and Saneel Ratan, “The Age of the Road Warrior,” Time, March 1, 1995, 38.
9: THE OFFICE AND ITS ENDS
1. David Foster Wallace, The Pale King (2011; New York: Back Bay Books, 2012), 539.
2. Leslie Helm, “Microsoft Testing Limits on Temp Worker Use,” Los Angeles Times, December 7, 1997, quoted in Fraser, White-Collar Sweatshop, 147.
3. “The Fax of Life,” Entertainment Weekly, May 23, 2003, http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,452194,00.html.
4. Carol Madonna, interview with author, April 23, 2012.
5. Nicolai Ouroussoff, “A Workplace Through the Looking Glass,” Los Angeles Times, January 31, 1999.
6. Chris Coleman, interview with author, April 26, 2012.
7. Anonymous, interview with author, August 15, 2013.
8. Carolyn Cutrone and Max Nisen, “19 Successful People Who Barely Sleep,” Business Insider, September 18, 2012.
9. Lisa Belkin, “Marissa Mayer’s Work-from-Home Ban Is the Exact Opposite of What CEOs Should Be Doing,” Huffington Post, February 23, 2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-belkin/marissa-mayer-work-from-home-yahoo-rule_b_2750256.html; Kelly Steele, “New Moms at Work,” Scary Mommy, http://www.scarymommy.com/new-moms-at-work/.
10. Erin Hatton, The Temp Economy: From Kelly Girls to Permatemps in Postwar America (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011).
11. Louis Lhoest, interview with author, July 12, 2012.
12. Paul Vos and T. van der Voordt, “Tomorrow’s Offices Through Today’s Eyes: Effects of Innovation in the Working Environment,” Journal of Corporate Real Estate 4 (2001): 53.
13. T. van der Voordt, “Productivity and Employee Satisfaction in Flexible Workplaces,” Journal of Corporate Real Estate 6, no. 2 (2004): 137.
14. Anne Laure-Fayard and John Weeks, “Who Moved My Cube?,” Harvard Business Review, July 2011, 104.
15. Erik Veldhoen, interview with author, July 13, 2012.
16. Richard Greenwald, interview with author, August 9, 2013.
17. “Employment Projections, 2010–2020,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, February 1, 2012. See also Ursula Huws, “The Making of a Cybertariat? Virtual Work in a Real World,” Socialist Register, 2001, 12–13.
18. Clive Morton, Andrew Newall, and John Sparkes, Leading HR: Delivering Competitive Advantage (London: CIPD Publishing, 2001), 22–23. The authors refer to Amin Rajan’s work in Amin Rajan and P. van Eupen, Tomorrow’s People (Kent, U.K.: CREATE, 1998).
19. Scott Chacon, interview with author, September 24, 2013.
20. Scott Chacon, Tim Clem, and Liz Clinkenbeard, interview with author, September 24, 2013.
21. Sadaf Khan, interview with author, June 5, 2012.
22. K. Santhosh, interview with author, June 5, 2012.
23. Paul Shankman, “Tim Freundlich: HUB, a New Kind of Workspace,” Lincoln Now, February 28, 2013.
24. Greg Lindsay, “Coworking Spaces from Grind to GRid70 Help Employees Work Beyond the Cube,” Fast Company, March 2013, http://www.fastcompany.com/3004915/coworking-nextspace.
26. Paul Siebert, interview with author, May 5, 2013.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nikil Saval is an editor of n+1. He lives in Philadelphia.
This is his first book.