The Artisanal Cubicle
A new company wants to turn your office supplies into a vehicle for expression. Are you ready for “workstyle”?
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What color is your tape dispenser?
That’s not the title of some buzzy new career book. It’s a question that, in all seriousness (OK, maybe in half-seriousness or strained small talk), your next job interviewer might ask. Once content with yellow Post-it notes and the rogue family photo as their sole pieces of cubicle flair, office workers are turning their design-minded, Pinterest- and Instagram-obsessed focus to their actual desktops. No longer the domain of creative fields such as graphic design and advertising or willfully eccentric software startups, the curated workspace is going mass market.