As century closes down, corporation open up.(changes in workspace arrangements)(Brief Article)

From: Insight on the News | Date: June 29, 1998| Author: Burn, Timothy | Copyright information

In the wake of massive restructuring and recent mergers and acquisitions, large companies are viewing wide-open spaces as a cost-cutting, team-player strategy right for the future.

Workers toiling away in tiny cubicles, dreaming of one day getting a big office, may be out of luck. Private offices seem to be disappearing from the American workplace in the nineties almost as quickly as typewriters vanished in the eighties.

U.S. companies have come to believe tha...

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