Original Designer of Cubicles remarks on their adulteration

Metropolis Feature: The Man Behind the Cubicle

My favorite quote comes right at the end:

"The dark side of this is that not all organizations are intelligent and progressive," Propst says. "Lots are run by crass people who can take the same kind of equipment and create hellholes. They make little bitty cubicles and stuff people in them. Barren, rat-hole places."