a post by Andrew G. Rosen for the Jobacle blog
If you think about it, it’s really kinda ironic that, for all of the corporate propaganda about ‘openness,’ so many of us feel more closed off – more trapped – than ever before. Incidences of claustrophobia seem to have been very much on the rise in recent years, afflicting a broad swath of white-collar types. It appears that we’ve graduated from the more rural-sounding cabin fever to the more modern and corporate Cubicle Fever. Irrespective, the feeling sucks.
The Setting
They’ve issued you a cubicle, a ‘Herman Miller’esque workspace. A place for you to spend at least seven hours a day; ergonomically designed to ensure that you do what you get paid to do, while occupying the least amount of floor space possible.
And, I would add, with the very least amount of human interaction possible. Everyone chained to their computer screen, the silence pretty much only broken by the click-clack of many keyboards. So the feeling of isolation and confinement intensifies, after all, they’ve limited your peripheral vision and made it possible for people to approach from behind without warning. No wonder your internal tension mounts. Before you know it, you’ve got Cubicle Fever.
Continue reading to get “The Symptoms” and “The Cure”
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