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MARCH 6, 2017

We mostly work in the typical open cubicle format, with only a few offices, and she happens to sit in the row of cubicles directly next to mine. Is there any way you’d be willing to hold off on bringing those into our cubicle area for the next couple of months? I said that if he preferred I’d stick to my legal name.

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Vantage Circle

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Self-actualization Needs – Challenging work, promotions, training programs to advance their career and enhance their skills. It has been developed by American legal scholar Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, last year’s Nobel prize winner in Economics. Use feedback and appraisal programs to recognize them. Nudge Theory.

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AUGUST 20, 2018

I really love the workplace and have been promoted from an office assistant to a senior associate. Is this legal? Yes, that is legal. A coworker on the opposite side of the cubicle wall from me has started an unusual habit. I want to be able to leave early when my work is slow. I work for a mid-sized nonprofit.

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Ask a Manager

JULY 29, 2016

Manage is in quotes because we are technically a “flat” organization, but as we grew they started promoting people to team leads. Normally you’d bring HR into this, because they’re the ones who should trained to manage that process, but since you don’t have HR, who normally handles legal issues for your company?

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Ask a Manager

JANUARY 12, 2016

Legally, we know that we can reduce it a bit, but should we? I sit in a cubicle at work all day. We all make silly mistakes, but sometimes the price of them is that we take ourselves out of the running for a job/a date/a promotion/a Powerball win. My promised promotion hasn’t come through yet. She is at $60k.

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Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 19, 2016

One of the leads — I’ll call her Julie — shares cubicle space with my coworker and me and is new to the role, less than six months. It makes other departments shy away from her, and promotional opportunities are denied due to her attitude. There is a tech in her dept, Mary, who is not doing so well.

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APRIL 28, 2016

My boss got a promotion and now wants to promote me instead of my coworker. We sit in a cubicle separated by a wall. My coworker doesn’t know about my promotion yet. It’s very, very normal to take an office when it’s offered to you, totally aside from the promotion. Good lord, take the office!

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Ask a Manager

AUGUST 17, 2022

That is a travesty because the Oxford comma should always be used and promotes clarity. And having this rule is legal under the laws here and so is letting people go for breaking it. Would it be rude if I posted a sign asking them to knock or announce themselves before popping their head into my cubicle so that I can put on my mask?

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DECEMBER 1, 2015

After a week, one person came into my cubicle where everyone could hear and demanded to know why I worked here when I clearly wasn’t a cultural fit. The company then announced that we were going from cubicles to an open floor plan to promote communication between teams.

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