Cube x I just loved this chapter It says a lot about how the mentality of work needed to change after the Industrial Revolution Reminds me of mass production lines of Henry Ford specialization of workforce and so on Also specialization has the known downside of the psychological dissatisfaction of I m not doing any real work The methodology of optimizing the work and making it efficient by writing it down and analyzing the workflow supported by measuring each task has organically evolved into Six Sigma and Business Process Management Big corporations like GE has a complete department that implements Six Sigma and actually each worker in the workshop has to time count himself using a special system.

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NERD ALERT I totally gobbled this one up Funny enough I started listening to this one during a recent week of some serious overtime because who doesn t love when a client rolls out a new feature right before the holidays Also I was craving Dilbert something FIERCE while reading and was delighted to see collected volumes available at my library I plowed through one late at night and can t wait to dive into the rest Cubed A Secret History of the Workplace A book about the history and evolution of office architecture office workers sociology and work business Nikil Saval does for offices what Foucault did for prisons and hospitals transforming a seemingly static purely functional self evident institution into a rich human story The Clerking Class We can all nowadays related to the common stereotype of office workers being bored and doing doing repetitive tasks but before 1850s office workers clerks specifically were a small minority banks insurance Yet they were mocked nonetheless from workers in factories saying office workers with their paper copying and number counting weren t doing any real work their work is feminine The Birth of The Office From mid nineteenth century the way we work changed Controversial Frederick Speedy Taylor was an OCD man obsessed with optimization to the point he made his own tennis racket suitable for his body This mechanical engineer provided his consulting services to a factory measuring and timing using newly invented cameras each required task after these required tasks were written down and systemized and optimized what we call nowadays bottom up approach all to make workers efficient thus higher profits for both the owner and the workers Industrial Engineering along with Gantt Chart and Management Consulting like McKinsey were born This is what we call nowadays KPIs and Processes Reengineering Taylor disliked unions says that each worker is unique and the work he does the efficient he is the higher wage he deserved dealing with all workers equally because of unions pressures was unfair he believed Lenin and Stalin loved him and wanted to implement his ideas Japan worshiped him His ideas were the defense on East Rate Case were a railroad company was demanding higher prices for tickets in order to be able to raise workers wages yes it is a costly overhead but it sure pays back What all of this has to do with the birth of the office Well with systemization a LOT of overhead positions were needed for management and so on the men who provided the brain work Muscle workers were no longer seen as the ones providing the real work they became just a clog in the machine Joke on you now I ll be your boss soon says the white collar to the factory worker who called the white collar guy s job early as feminine The White Blouse Revolution Managers found out that women can do double the performance of men for half of the salary hiring women for typing and secretary jobs spread like fire in 1920s almost 100% of these positions were filled by women and 50% of total office jobs This started in 1870s after the Civil War with the shift from agriculture to offices family agricultural businesses were filled with women workers. Cubed potatoes It is at the same time that people started to seek finishing school high school sufficiently in order to get the fancy promising office job It is also at the same time that institutions training women for office jobs spread In my opinion this sudden high demand for office professionals leading to educated people had its downturns Education became a factory that produced clogs for the machine We still suffer from this Your parents pressure you to get into Law college instead of Art what you are passionate about in order to be able to find a job when you graduate Up The Skyscraper Just like the Taylorization of work skyscrapers needed to house exploding office jobs were met with controversy from unions In an article in Alarm magazine belonging to an anarchist faction of a union Persons says Each of you hungry tramps who read these lines avail yourselves of those little methods of warfare which Science has placed in the hands of the poor man and you will become a power in this or any other land Learn the use of explosives The threat of a violent action against the city bombs planted in a skyscraper seized a city Chicago still traumatized by the fire of 1871 Rings a bell The solution Divide blue collar work from the office thus highly increasing centralization Was centralization a common thing before Chicago It seems to me that it was hard to unionize office workers for they believed in individuality also this had a larger effect the office workers resistance to unions was in fact preventing the entire working class from getting organized They were acting as a buffer between capital and laborSo after WW1 It seems that office workers confused Marxists because they didn t fit to the proletarian or the capitalists classes It was something like this so blue collars are trying to convince white collars they are the same working to the fat capitalist but the whites were saying hey blues back off we are higher than you There was indeed a huge difference in the culture and income almost double between the two Some german whites wanted to keep the statuesque so they didn t vote for the Left and adding the fact that the Left was divided into many competing factions Nazis won Left in general blamed the office workers for Left loss This was also the case in the US where American Marxists Magazine cartoons and lefty novelist were portraying office works teaming up with the police to beat blue collar protesters. Epub cubed book That s for office workers As for the offices themselves skyscrapers Architecture was heavily radicalized and modernized by Le Corbusier a Taylor like figure First they were boring generalized concrete buildings that looked alike Then technical advancement of air conditioning and steel frames that allowed usage of big windows skyscrapers became and aesthetic Organization Men and WomenDid you know that in 1950s it was common for companies to ask you to bring your wife with you to the interview and that 20% of candidates were turned down because of their wives The heck LolThe corporation had usually displayed a certain interest in the family lives of its male employees When CEOs like Thomas Watson referred to the IBM Family it was meant to suggest warmly that IBM hired not only an engineer but his wife and children as well Also Who was the Mrs Executive that the companies were looking for In Whyte s summary of his interview findings she is a wife who is highly adaptable highly gregarious realizes her husband belongs to the corporation Open PlansIn 1950s and 1960s Robert Propst was a neo Taylorist applying it everywhere and not just offices or factories Even when hospitalized he took lots of notes on improving efficiency of the hospital Then came Douglas McGregor who disliked Taylorism because it s built on the assumption that workers are lazy Taylor did suggest blue collars were lazy thus they need to be monitored and measured I think this explains why unions hated Taylor so much and most of blue collars were against participating in Taylor empirical studies he says it should come from within worker intellectual potential with self control and need for satisfaction of higher level ego will make this knowledge worker perform better. Cubedb These individualistic knowledge workers still ignored unions And also social theorists all over appeared to agree that the labor market in the US was becoming less focused on manufacturing and on goods and services This is due to a shift in the mentality of businesses and consumers as it seems There was focus on quality rather than quantity bachelor degree is now required for a position than didn t even need high school degree years ago This highly educated intellectual knowledge worker was on high demand. Cubedq quest The obsession for optimizing offices to be flexible and productive continued Propst invented Action Office that was highly acclaimed by critics but not widely implemented because it wasn t practical By time and feedback from businesses Action Office evolved into the cubicle Propst regrets unintentionally unleashing this evil into the world Space InvadersRace and sec issues in the office And architecture talk of course The Office of The FutureMostly about the hip design of dot com era offices that were very flexible which is consistent with the flexible business of such companies This chapter ends with an interesting experiment done by the company Chiat Day where they got rid of private desks offices all together and people had lockers it was a disaster and dot com bubble bursted so there was no room for another experiment being conducted in other dot com companies So what the office of the future will look like if offices continued to exist that is The Office and its EndPost dot come era Google like corporations with their work at home allowed policies and the effect of that on office design and work in general I believe that is because work became paper less mostly emails and phone calls Personally no one cares if I didn t come to the office unless if there is a meeting and even then I can join the meeting through Skype. Cubed cm to litres Erik Veldhoen marxist suggests that a significant change in the way we work is coming work will get back to Craftsmanship pre industrial era instead of current industrialization specialization assembly line It seems that he is right specially with the sudden explosion of entrepreneurs and startups That also affected the office with the spreading of co working space for these small businesses working together in the same building and floor. Cubedhost We saw in The Birth of The Office that the office became common when white collar class risen because of technical advancement such as telephony and fax and the need for management and optimization brain work for blue collars muscle work It seems that the way business is conducted will change dramatically in the near future freelancers less management worker corporation relationship significantly changing to mutual deal instead of modern slavery which will lead to big changes in office perhaps the lack of Cubed A Secret History of the Workplace What I wanted was a book about cubicles What I got was a cultural history of office work from the clerkships of the 19th century to the GooglePlexes of the 21st Saval is an intellectual omnivore it s a rare book that cites both Bartleby the Scrivener and Office Space and there some lively passages that transport the reader through the history of design and its mixing with popular culture namely the chapter on cubicles But taken as a whole Cubed lacks heft it has no argument no angle other than the well worn point that rote work is dehumanizing and cubicles are no fun To his credit Saval is skeptic enough to see that the latest innovations Open Offices and hip collaborative Tech Campuses are just window dressing on the age old problems of hierarchy and bureaucracy cubicles in new clothes What a cheery thought Cubed A Secret History of the Workplace An exceptionally tedious and academic read This book seemed like a great potential read I HATE the open office layout and cannot understand why so many companies use this So it seemed like a book that had the history of cubicle and the office would be a great read I don t know what it is but it strikes me as quite dry and academic He starts with a history of the clerk and eventually branches out into various themes such as what the future of the office might look like with some current offices as examples And I admit some of it was quite interesting especially if the reader traces the history of women entering the workforce the problems they faced lower pay sexual harassment little room to advance Some of that has not changed at all as many know quite well But overall there s a great review on Goodreads that says that seems like it was written as an undergraduate paper eager to show ALL of the research rather than taking that research and creating a narrative with it While it s great to get down to the nitty gritty of the history of the clerk and the origins of what we know as the office I agree the book could have used pruning with a little less history and focus on the modern day office As it was I found it disappointing and could only skim it Quite a few reviewers say the writing was witty and engaging I have to look askance at that because I felt like I read a totally different book I wouldn t recommend it There are various interviews with the author out there and one might get the gist from reading listening to those Cubed A Secret History of the Workplace I loved this book Many of the other reviews mention that they found it distracting to wander through various topics but I loved it I felt like hearing perspective from films books labor unions architecture and office culture really added to a holistic picture of modern offices. Cubedmc minecraft server I particularly enjoyed learning about some of the things I d totally missed I had no idea that white collar workers had refused to unionize because they wanted to feel as though they had upward mobility Similarly I didn t realize that work campuses had been prevalent before the dotcom era I d agree that the tagline secret is misleading but I hadn t really factored that into my decision to read the book Cubed A Secret History of the Workplace You mean this place we go to five days a week has a history Cubed reveals the unexplored yet surprising story of the places where most of the world s work our work gets done From Bartleby the Scrivener to The Office from the steno pool to the open plan cubicle farm Cubed is a fascinating often funny and sometimes disturbing anatomy of the white collar world and how it came to be the way it is and what it might become. Bookshelf cubed adjustable office In the mid nineteenth century clerks worked in small dank spaces called counting houses These were all male enclaves where work was just paperwork Most Americans considered clerks to be questionable dandies who didn t do real work But the joke was on them as the great historical shifts from agricultural to industrial economies took place and then from industrial to information economies the organization of the workplace evolved along with them and the clerks took over Offices became rationalized designed for both greater efficiency in the accomplishments of clerical work and the enhancement of worker productivity Women entered the office by the millions and revolutionized the social world from within Skyscrapers filled with office space came to tower over cities everywhere Cubed opens our eyes to what is a truly secret history of changes so obvious and ubiquitous that we ve hardly noticed them From the wood paneled executive suite to the advent of the cubicles where 60% of Americans now work and 93% of them dislike it to a not too distant future where we might work anywhere at any time and perhaps all the time Cubed excavates from popular books movies comic strips Dilbert and a vast amount of management literature and business history the reasons why our workplaces are the way they are and how they might be better Cubed A Secret History of the WorkplaceYou cannot tell me that there s a book about the history of the workplace and not expect me to read it I may have given up on history after O Levels but I love reading about the history behind things we take for granted if you have any book reccs let me know As a fan of Dilbert and someone who s probably going to remain an office dweller for the next few years I was curious about the history behind the place I sit in almost every day. Cube pdf 1 to 30 While I never thought too much about when the office came into being it makes sense that it s fairly recent It was in the mid nineteenth century that clerks started working in dark cramped places the proto office And when America industrialised and the railroad came into being the need for administrative workers increased and the modern office came into being It s pretty interesting to see all these side effects of railways did you know that another effect of the railways was the standardisation of time Apart from the physical evolution of the dark counting rooms to the office Cubed also tracks the changes in the way Americans think about the office At first office workers were seen as dandies who didn t do real work unlike the rest of the Americans who laboured with their hands But clerks were also one of the few jobs where it was possible to progress with some hard work and perhaps the wooing of the boss s daughter a clerk may become a businessman in the future. Book cube shelf As time went on women entered the workforce mostly because upper management realised they could pay people less for equally great work were the target of some seriously sexist thinking aka all women are here to sleep with men for work and eventually started challenging these norms This was something that resonated with me because even now so many years later we re still feeling the effects of sexism in the workplace and it s still something that we need to work to correct. Cubeez woolworths Another interesting section was about the evolution of the open plan office Apparently the idea of the flexible office came from Europe but the implementation went wrong One of the ideas for revolutionising the office was called the action office and it eventually became the cubicle The original design was a lot open but someone soon realised you could turn it into a little box and save space. EPub cubed I also learned that there was a postwar mania for personality testing as part of the corporate office s efforts to mould the personalities of their workers I don t know if it s still being doing in America but when I was job hunting in Japan personality tests were very common I wonder if this was something that they took from America given that the American army took control of Japan from 1945 to 1952. Cubed x 2 Overall I thought this was very interesting The book talks about the evolution of the physical office and how that ties into our views and thoughts about the office As such the book draws upon significant American buildings movies and even comic strips to bring together a narrative of how the office came to be how people have tried to change it and what people are doing to try and change it. Cubed book This review was first posted at Eustea Reads Cubed A Secret History of the Workplace This was an enlightening view on the history of the cubicle A history of the cubicle is also a history of politics and capitalism and corporate bureaucracy and the traditional roles between men and women not to mention Dilbert Office Space and The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. Cubed chicken recipes So now I know why we are stuck in cubes looking at computer screens getting only moderate outside light freezing our asses off and pondering why such a mind numbing job requires an expensive college degree You can blame Propst for coming up with Action Office 2 and sticking us in cubicles in the 1970 s but cubicles like this were not his intention He thought flexible walls would mean flexibility at work. Pdf cube page I learned quite a bit about the building of skyscrapers and office parks and what office space does to the psyche Nikil Savral covers a lot of ground in a relatively short book and does it well I m glad not to have been a working girl in the 50 s and 60 s Thank you 9to5ers I remember my first glimpse of office life when I got a real job and was dismayed by the sea of cubicles out of place in an office building from the 50 s that still had actual fireplaces in the corner offices Even in the newer building that I worked in the cubes still seemed out of place the building had not been designed for the amount of cubes that people were crammed into. Cube pdf utility free download The author talks about newer types of offices at progressive companies and what the vision is for the future He doesn t mention anything though about the badges we swipe and the high security in our buildings The futuristic talk about co workspaces which exist now as places to go to meet people from other companies while you type away on your laptop does not address the chronic need for security for our clients for our company and for ourselves I don t know how that will play out in the future with all of the hacking of major companies underway and the tight regulations of the government. Factorise x cubed x A good book worth reading if you re geeky like me and just have to know why office furniture is the way it is Cubed A Secret History of the Workplace I feel pretty good about my own cubicle after reading this Spacious Permanent build Personalization available. Cubed yams in oven But Cubed could have used a bit focus There are enough infobytes in here to hold my attention and the writing was easy But the structure was weak I couldn t tell if we were studying offices from historical documents through film and movie analyis or from architecture I get that these are all necessary sources for a history of offices and obviously a lot of research went into the book But it has that undergraduate quality of wanting desperately to show off allthe research gathered rather than pruning and refining its findings into a tighter narrative. Ricardo cubedo oncologo Follow me on Twitter Dr_A_Taubman Cubed A Secret History of the Workplace One of the dirty little secrets of the modern world is how many people s waking hours can be reduced to sitting behind a desk in an office hour after hour day after day year after year droning away performing tasks either tasteless or downright repugnant This little book about modern office cubes is most insightful Having had the nasty experience of being chained to a desk myself as a young man I offer the following warning in the form of a micro fiction OVERTIMEFor many years Neal Merman commuted back and forth to his place of work like the others It was to an insurance office a room with blank walls linoleum floor and forty desks under naked florescent lights Coming in with regularity Neal performed the job of an everyday clerk. Cubed root of 64 This mechanical routine shifted abruptly however when Neal became part of his desk First the desk absorbed only two fingers but by the end of that afternoon his entire left hand was sucked up by the metal And the following morning Neal s left leg from the knee down also became part of his desk So it continued for a week until the only Neal to be seen was a right arm positioned beside a head and neck on the desk top. Cubedq que es When the other clerks arrived in the morning all of them could see what was left of Neal head down and pencil in hand reviewing a file with utmost care To aid his review Neal would punch figures into his calculator fluently and with the dexterity of someone who knows he is total command of his skill Such acumen brought a wry smile to Neal s face. Cube kinder mountainbike One day Big Bart the department boss came by to check on Neal s files Your work clerk is better and better although you are now desk than flesh and bones What files do you want me to review today Neal asked still scrutinizing some figures Not too many files clerk but enough to keep you Big Bart withdrew and Neal followed him with his eyes until his boss could no longer be seen. Kindle cubedhost Later that same day Neal s right arm faded into the metal Then like a periscope being lowered from the surface of the sea his neck jaw and nose sank down leaving his eyes slightly above the gray slab Neal looked forward and saw his pencil straight on a long gleaming yellow cylinder with shiny eraser band at the end Over the pencil his telephone swelled like some giant mountain Hearing the phone ring Neal instinctively reached for the receiver but this was only a mental gesture Neal felt his forehead sinking and closed his eyes Cubed A Secret History of the Workplace I wanted to like this one but could not even after reading the whole book In Cubed Nikil Saval offers an informative look into the history of the cubicle and the white collar workplace He delves into topics such as the architecture of the office the sexism that female employees encounter and what the cubicle s past portends for its future However Cubed reads as a list of facts than as an organized cohesive whole Saval writes about all of the topics listed above but not in an inviting way While he shows that he has done his research through the extensive knowledge he displays I wanted of his original voice insights and arguments Recommended only to those who love the topic of cubicles and offices enough that they can pass on a welcoming reader friendly writing style Cubed A Secret History of the Workplace

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The defendant argues that if they Taylorized their work they can save enough money to compensate for the higher wages, Cubed potatoes The author does take a firm point of view in the book rather than just aggregating data but that didn t bother me at all.So points for knowledge and effort