Talk:Action Office

As I start this I wonder if it needs to be merged with Cubicle desk, but lets see if it grows on its own - it's got a couple of incomming links?? Richard Taylor 01:13, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

After few hours of browsing the internet, I just have to try to head off a wave of misinformation. Evey one now "knows" that the cubicle wwas invented by Bob Probst in 1968. Why do they know this? Because the Internet says so! And every site seems to just echo every other site. SO here's the problem: ITS NOT TRUE. When I was young, i.e., well before 1968, the offices my aunts worked in had cubicles, with partitions of wood and conventional desks and file cabinets. When I joined the Army in 1968, all of the offices had old, beat-up cubicle partitions that I would say were bought during World War II, and certainly were not brand-new. I think that Bob Probst just invented the hook-together steel combination partition, desktop, light and drawer units, not the concept of individual cubicles, which I believe was introduced in the mid-1930's to improve productivity over the old, wide-open offices. Saying that the Action Office is the ancestor of the cubicle is like saying that the Model T Ford is the ancestor of the automobile: confusing the first example of an object with a later example that was the first huge commercial success. I suggest that those too young to remember before 1968 try looking at old movies for offices with cubicles, paricularly in banks.