Rubik's Cubicles

Most corporate desks are built to be sized for a single occupant.

Typical Corporate Workspace:
One Employee to a Cube

It is not uncommon, however, to "save" space by doubling up occupants in a cube. Clearly life can get a bit crowded, but the situation is not unmanageable provided everyone is a daily bather.

A Cube Squared

All of that changes drastically when you're a third-party consultant (e.g. yours truly). In that case, the same cube designed for one person and ambitiously adapted to the needs of two is amazingly able to accommodate up to six people at once (yes, I speak from experience). Extricating one's self from that tangle of humanity without injuring a colleague requires, at the very least, a working knowledge of geometry; trig or even calculus are even better.

Anyway, one day it struck me that this shifting and rearranging of seats in a specific order hearkened back to the old Rubik's Cube puzzle, whose name I adapted to create a title for the setup.

A Rubik's Cubicle