What it says about us, the place where we work

We spend the bulk of our days in the workplace. The office is the nervous system in our knowledge society. But to be the backbone of existence for the average human, not to say cathedral to workaholics, we generally pay too little attention to the path that has brought us to a cubicle in front of a screen and a spreadsheet for an entire day. labor. To how we have gone from manual work in series to the contemporary office. This is history is what Cubed tells: A secret history of the workplace (Translatable as Al cubicle: Secret history of the workplace), a new book in which Nikil Saval explains the evolution of the office stopping at its architectural and cultural milestones , from the clerk's desk to the cubicle.

"Offices were born as humid caverns, with towers of overcrowded files everywhere like dark stalagmites, but in the fifties they began to become clean and dazzlingly lit places," Saval warns. The reasons are not as obvious as the hygiene. The author's thesis delves deeper into the utopia of the search for the optimal workplace over the years.