Cubicle or Office

I work from home, so a private area off the living room. I wish it was enclosed, but I live with it as it is.

On the rare occasion I work in the actual office where my org is located, I have my own office (when I started [in a different position], I had a cubicle).

At home, I'm in a corner in the living room since we live in a one-bedroom apartment. One day I'll have an actual office/craft room.

I have my own office. The customer service groups are open floor plan, but everyone else has separate offices.

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When I worked in an office building, there were offices on the outside and cubicles on the inside. I worked (one day a week) in the cubicle. I was only there for the morning and half of that was in an office for a meeting.

Office.  We meet with students so we need a private place to go over their information.

I have always had an office .. never a cube.. I consider that VERY lucky.

Many years ago I worked in Embarcadero 3 in an office with a view of Angel Island, Tiburon and the Golden Gate Bridge.  No office view since then has been able to top that!  

I was just a few blocks away on California - my biggest memory was fleet week - when those jets shook the buildings!  I had an office with a door that closed, but conference calls were rough when the Blue Angels were in town!

I work from home and have a dedicated office.

But, if I were to go into our office in SLC, it’s very open with windows on all four sides. Directors and above have offices on the outer rim, but they are floor to ceiling glass walls. Everyone else is in a desk in the open floor plan middle.

In our Atlanta office directors and above have window offices. Managers have interior offices without windows and everyone else is in a cube. You can’t see into the next cube unless you are standing.

I work from home in our guest/craft room (which is as crowded as it sounds).

At the office we have cubes with tall walls, but the openings all face the center. There are no cube walls at the windows, which you'd think would be nice, but on the second floor with sun beating in the floor to ceiling windows (in the deep South no less) it's like working in the 9th circle of hell - not to mention the horrendous glare. We're supposed to move to a new building that's being renovated with more "collaborative spaces" I don't know what that means.

I'm only in office two days a week, but when I'm there I have my own office.

My home office is in a spare bedroom that is exclusively my home office. I'm currently full time at home until September then I am mandated to return to the open floor cubicle farm with no dividers and what they call bus seating 3 days/week. I'm really bitter about it. I love my home office and I guess 2 days at home is better than none come September.

I work from home in a dedicated office space. Before that I was in a cubicle farm in a large window-less room; no one had offices there. I had a cubicle directly under a skylight though, so I did get some natural light (and a lot of noise when there was a downpour, LOL). At our alternate location, everyone (including me) was in cubicles except for our Program Director and his deputy who had private offices. The cubicles there were in an open floor plan with lots of windows and natural light, but the windows made it either too hot or too cold depending on the season. The cubicles were pretty nice, with a locker area for each and a built-in white board, comfy chairs, etc. but they had really low walls so it could get noisy sometimes.

In previous jobs, I've had a multitude of different setups - usually cubicles, some better than others, some private with floor-to-ceiling [fabric] walls, others a lot more open. Most had windows but not all. Several places I had my own office, and once or twice a shared office. The offices always had doors and windows. It was from one of these offices that I watched the plume of black smoke rise from the Pentagon on 9/11/01 with my co-workers as we watched CNN in horror and heard multiple conflicting reports on the radio.

At another job where most of us were in cubicles, we were on the 9th floor of an office building that was adjacent to one of the gathering spots for Rolling Thunder on Memorial Day weekend. So we'd all gather around the windows to look at their decorations and garb when we heard them coming into town on the Friday before Memorial Day. That vantage point also gave us a bird's eye view of the Space Shuttle Discovery when it was flown up to the Smithsonian. Space Shuttle Flight to DC

Another "memorable" setup was when I shared a large open area in an out-of-the-way corner with the 2 other members of my team; we each had a private cubicle and shared a conference table in the open area. (We were a small team of 3 test coordinators and didn't need to be in the larger area with the software developers in their cube farm. So our area was nice and secluded and quiet.) The thing that made it memorable though (and not in a good way) -- was that the whole space was a converted server room, and the HVAC was still set to server room temps, so it was icy-cold year round and the company had to provide us with space heaters. Even then we still had to wear our coats while we worked sometimes...brrr!

When I had my carpet cleaning business, I had an office in the house and built a desk fitted over the passenger seat of the van so I could do business while I was out and about. Of course there wasn't much I could do 30 years ago. No laptop, the phone was a brick Motorola 80 10" tall, 2" square, with an 8" antenna, a hand-held calculator was the size of today's smartphone, only 3 times thicker.