Editing Cubicle (section)

=== Open-plan offices ===
{{Main|Open plan#office spaces}}
During the 2000s and 2010s, open plan offices arose again as a modern response to cubicles, inspired by [[:Category:Companies based in Silicon Valley|tech companies]] in [[Silicon Valley#Rise of computer culture|Silicon Valley]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=This Is Why Open Offices Replaced Cubicles |url=https://www.themuse.com/advice/history-of-the-open-offices-exist-cubicles |access-date=2022-04-20 |website=The Muse |date=30 May 2018 |language=en}}</ref> Though they predate cubicles and were re-popularized by architects including [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] in 1939,<ref>{{Cite web |title=This Is Why Open Offices Replaced Cubicles |url=https://www.themuse.com/advice/history-of-the-open-offices-exist-cubicles |access-date=2022-04-20 |website=The Muse |date=30 May 2018 |language=en}}</ref> 21st-century open plans are sometimes described as a "[[fad]]." Open plans have negative consequences on employees' [[Productivity-improving technologies|productivity]],<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bernstein |first1=Ethan S. |last2=Turban |first2=Stephen |date=2018-08-19 |title=The impact of the 'open' workspace on human collaboration |journal=Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B |language=en |volume=373 |issue=1753 |pages=20170239 |doi=10.1098/rstb.2017.0239 |issn=0962-8436 |pmc=6030579 |pmid=29967303}}</ref> [[mental health]], and [[Contagious disease|health]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=James |first=Geoffrey |date=2018-10-10 |title=How Open-Plan Offices Kill Diversity and Equality |url=https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/how-open-plan-offices-kill-diversity-equality.html |access-date=2022-04-20 |website=Inc.com |language=en}}</ref> 

In 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, open-plan offices such as those in True Manufacturing Co. began to put up [[Poly(methyl methacrylate)|plexiglass]] [[Sneeze guard|partitions]]. Demand was so high and materials scarce the use of glass partitions as a protective screen was also widely used - essentially, once again [[Room divider|dividing]] open plans into cubicles.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mull |first=Amanda |date=2020-07-27 |title=The End of Open-Plan Everything |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/07/walls-pandemic-open-plan/614590/ |access-date=2022-04-20 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}}</ref>