Office box cubicle offers isolation, despair
Work: the dehumanized symphony of cycling photocopiers, ringing phones and muttered greetings. Old fluorescent lights flicker and hum, Gutmann-shredding your hypothalamus with ones and zeroes at 60hz. Backwards laughter comes from that lady down the hall, echoing ever-louder in the baked echo chamber of your skull. If only you could crawl in a box and get away from it all ...
... only to find that you have to work on a HP Pavilion inside it. God help you!
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That handicap aside, I do like the idea of a somewhat more private cubicle. I'd like my own office better, but this would do in a pinch.
In any office I've worked in this would immediately be nicknamed The Doghouse. I could see this being a popular place for holding speakerphone conference calls, short meetings and other potentially disruptive activities.
I think it's awesome that the bottom is open and the top is closed.
that is, until you want to take your shoes off or wear white socks at your desk and that's all anyone can see while your sitting there.
Of course the bottom's open because this mockup was build on a couple of tables. Just an art/concept piece.
Still... My problem with cubes isn't the small space, it's the fact that they really don't block noise worth a darn. From that point of view, this is almost an improvement. I've already told my employer that if they put me in a cube they can expect me to modify it in an effort to turn it into an (admittedly tiny) closed office.
If anyone was serious about this table-topper cube idea, I'd want to see privacy screens for the leg section. My co-workers really don't need to know when I've got an itch.
A perfect solution for claustrophiliacs like me.
#4: I would think that the bottom is open because anybody that rates a cubicle (not an office) has to have an eye kept on when they're there or not and when they're obviously sleeping. But maybe that's just my paranoid experiences with cubicles and bad employers. Come to think of it, if the employer is second a second rate company where they don't trust employees they wouldn't get these anyway.
At least you can't see if they're reading BB all day though...
Personally I'd have killed for a more private cubicle like this at any of the offices I've had to work at.
@6 -- do you do something unusual with your feet when you sleep at your desk?
#8: Put them up. Or sleep under my desk.