cube farm

[ kyoob fahrm ]

noun

, Slang.

1. an office space containing individual cubicles instead of rooms.

cube farm

noun

1. informal.
   an office which is divided up by mid-height partitions to create separate work spaces

Word History and Origins

Origin of cube farm¹

First recorded in 1995–2000

Example Sentences

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.

From Slate

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Forbes

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.

From Time

“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.

From Forbes