Why Cubicle Life feels like a Prison and How to Fix it
You are sitting in your cubicle and begin to get a little claustrophobic. The background noise and interruptions are making that seventh hour, a really slow one.
Why do we feel uneasy and might even hate our cubicles, managers, jobs, chairs, and co-workers?
Well, it all started several thousand years ago.
In his book [1] Brain Rules, Dr. Medina - a developmental molecular biologist, business consultant and director of the Brain Center for Applied Learning Research at Seattle Pacific University - shows how our brains really work, and why.
Brain rules might also explain why cubicle life feels like one in prison. Starting with spending 40 hours per week in a 10’ x 10’ cell with half an hour break and no windows, here is an inside of what does our brain “think” of this environment and why. No wonder its inventor, Robert Propst, lamented his unwitting contribution, before he died in 2000, to what he called “monolithic insanity.”
