Thursday, February 28, 2008

Enter Lifehacker's Coolest Cubicle Contest and Win a $500

Think your cubicle is pimp? Put your workspace decor savvy to the test by entering Lifehacker's Coolest Cubicle Contest and you could take home a $500 Amazon Gift Card.

We're looking for the coolest cubicle on the block, and over the next few weeks we'll feature our favorite submissions every Thursday on Lifehacker. Once the submissions are exhausted, your fellow readers will vote for the cubicle they think is the coolest, and the winner will take home a $500 Amazon Gift Card!
Of course, if you need one or two more things to put your cube on top, style your workspace at Cube-Star.com

Monday, February 18, 2008

Generation Y, Watch Your Boss for These Warning Signs

To help managers deal with our overweening self-importance, BusinessWeek has come up with a bullet-pointed Generation Y workplace survival guide. No, it doesn't include anything helpful, like how to use Facebook or Twitter as management tools. It does suggest exactly the kind of boss behavior Gen Y will see right through, once we learn to recognize it. So how do you know if your boss is trying to game you into productivity? Here are the signs:
Read the full story on Valleywag or read the BusinessWeek story Communicating with Twentysomethings.

Monday, February 11, 2008

Turning Office Clutter into Art

In describing the "Office Space" exhibit at the New Art Center in Newtonville, Mass., Chris Bergeron poses the question, "If Dilbert shared an office cubicle with Yoko Ono, what curious ideas might result?" The resulting perspective is curious indeed.

Tamiko Kawata fashioned rubber bands into something resembling the most dazzling condom display you've ever seen.
Um, office condoms? Seriously?

G. Jesse Sadia's burned Xerox paper with incense until a haunting face appeared.
Can't wait to copy my next report on Patchouli-infused paper with apparition watermarks, er smokemarks.

In her striking "Adaptive ReUse" installation, Molly Blieden wove a carpet from thousands of elastic bands that look like dried noodles.
Noodle rugs? What kind of office are we running here, anyway?

Find out more by reading the article, Turning office clutter into art, or checking out the exhibit, New Art Center presents Office Space.