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Cubed
- A Secret History of the Workplace
- De: Nikil Saval
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
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.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Decent from a historical perspective but retelling of Hollywood movie plots negatively affects overall quality
- De nozamaresu en 06-12-16
- Cubed
- A Secret History of the Workplace
- De: Nikil Saval
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
Decent from a historical perspective but retelling of Hollywood movie plots negatively affects overall quality
Revisado: 06-12-16
This book piqued my interest because our company was in the midst of moving our headquarters from an outdated cubicle laden office to a new state of the art office utilizing open, shared workspaces.
The good: there are some fascinating historical nuggets on the evolution of the office that you probably won't find agglomerated in one singular text anywhere else.
The bad: the evolutionary tale of the office is littered with the author's penchant for frequently summarizing the plots of Hollywood films based in office settings. This was a perplexing move considering that I found the historical information quite interesting. The recanting of storylines from multiple films muddied what would have otherwise been easy to follow linear storytelling and I often fast forwarded the movie portions @ 3x speed to get to the historical parts. All in all an average read on how the office as we know it came to be. The rating would have been better if the author edited out the useless retelling of Hollywood movie plots... Which would have made it a third shorter too.
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