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It drives me nuts overhearing them in the cube farm, but I’m not really sure if it’s worth raising it with management and possibly getting one or both in trouble.

With links to applications for writer’s residencies in Nebraska, Oregon, Scotland, Iceland and more, it’s great escapism if you work in a cube farm — so much fodder with which to fantasize about typing away for long, blissfully uninterrupted weeks with the backdrop of some remote, pastoral vista — whether or not you intend to actually apply.

It is hard to have a private conversation in a cube farm, but when someone is trying to have a private conversation, let them do it as best they can.

Dear Annie: I work in an office that used to be a “cube farm,” which was noisy and distracting enough, but now we’ve gone to an “open plan” layout where there are no walls at all between workstations.

“It is so much cooler to ask people to hang out with you on a ship than the your startup’s office breakroom,” says Baumgart, who worked in a “cube farm” at Motorola earlier.