Office cubicles were intended to liberate

From The Atlantic: "The original designs for the cubicle came out of a very 1960s moment; the intention was to free office workers from uninspired, even domineering workplace settings. The designer, Robert Propst, was a kind of manically inventive figure with no particular training in design, but an intense interest in how people work. His original concept was called the Action Office … meant to be a flexible three-walled structure that could accommodate a variety of ways of working. … In other words, the original cubicle was about liberation."