What jobs in the UK do you know of that work from a cubicle? Do you enjoy it?

Posted by Independent-Loan-581@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 34 comments

Hello! I am a 28-year-old who has worked in receptionist roles, as a teacher, and as a personal assistant to a manager at a renowned real estate company.

I recently moved to the UK after marrying my British partner, and we thought it would be an excellent opportunity for me to change careers.

I have excellent organisational skills, and I would love a job that allows me to have my own cubicle. I know I have probably romanticised the idea a little, but it genuinely feels like something I would enjoy doing for the rest of my life.

Of course, I understand that I may not end up in a cubicle-based role and might simply take whatever opportunities are available. Still, I am curious.

What jobs in the UK typically involve working in a cubicle or office setting? And do people generally enjoy them?

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HirsuteHacker@reddit

Might want to get a time machine, cubicles we're largely replaced with open plan offices 20-30 years ago

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Odd-Paramedic-3826@reddit

as far as im aware many businesses are ditching cubicles in favour of open plan working spaces, it's more efficient, saves on cost, and makes it easier to monitor employees

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BrillsonHawk@reddit

That happened in the 1990s. Cubicles may have survived in some antiquated places, but they have been the dominant office layout for close to 40 years now

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RedRamblerUK@reddit

Direct correlation with the decline of unions and business masters graduates who think efficiency is from employing silly targets and cutting lunch breaks.

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RelationshipLife6739@reddit

Literally no business masters graduates think that but this was kinda funny…

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RedRamblerUK@reddit

Bring back unions and end nanny state work places.

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Odd-Paramedic-3826@reddit

i've not been in a corporate workplace yet (recent grad in this job market lmao) but the best thing i learnt from my degree is that if i ever worked full time under the agile methodology i'd end up on the news

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mordhoshogh@reddit

The word 'scrum' makes me furious.

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lady_is_a_one@reddit

Just googled that word and want to drown myself in the bath now 🙈

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lost-in-midgard@reddit

I've worked in offices for 25 years, multiple industries.

Never seen a cubicle in real life.

Honestly OP, the idea you could work in any white collar office job for the rest of your life in the age of AI is a pipe dream.

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connectfourvsrisk@reddit

Years ago I had a semi-enclosed cubicle in a administrative assistant role in local government. Honestly, I loved the role and in some ways wished I’d pursued it long term.

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Independent-Loan-581@reddit (OP)

What kid of gov job was it?

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connectfourvsrisk@reddit

It was administration work for Highways management at a local council. I got the job through a temp agency originally but had the option to take it permanently. Similar roles come up fairly frequently in many councils and progression can be quite fast. It involved cataloguing permissions for road works and logging what the engineers and inspectors were doing. Also, other things around how the public uses the roads so organising licensing of skips and things commercial properties need. I had a place on a postgraduate course and a scholarship so decided to move on but on reflection it was a place I could have happily kept working at least for a few years.

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Independent-Loan-581@reddit (OP)

That sounds like a lovely job!

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connectfourvsrisk@reddit

I genuinely enjoyed it. It wouldn’t suit me now for various reasons but I do recommend people check out similar roles. Especially if they are thinking of having kids as there are often flexible hours available.

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amedeeozenfant@reddit

Toilet cleaner.

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Rude-Possibility4682@reddit

Swimming pool attendant, lots of changing cubicles.

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Independent-Loan-581@reddit (OP)

Loool

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WildWanderingRedHead@reddit

I have literally never even seen a cubicle let alone worked in one. Where did you move here from?....are you mixing up up with American television?

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Independent-Loan-581@reddit (OP)

Not mixing it up. Thats why I am asking lmao. And ive been around but worked in the states for long. They do have loads of cubicle jobs over there. Not only in tv

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WildWanderingRedHead@reddit

Hope you get your cubicle!

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Independent-Loan-581@reddit (OP)

It be lovely

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JayBea-on-Sea@reddit

Pull up a sandbag, swing the lantern…

My first job in A Big Company after completing my apprenticeship. Day 1 and I’m shown to my own cubicle. Half height partitions, a computer desk and a drawing desk, a personal book shelf to keep all the things that would help me do my job. Colleagues a polite request away if needed, but also space and quiet to concentrate behind the Formica redoubt.

All at the tender age of 20, and all within this century.

They have taken a lot from us since.

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ukbot-nicolabot@reddit

OP marked this as the best answer, given by /u/stevecrox0914.

Working for 15 years in software, everything is open plan. I have never seen a cubicle until I visited companies the ones I worked for owned in Australia and America.

^(What is this?)

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stevecrox0914@reddit

Working for 15 years in software, everything is open plan. I have never seen a cubicle until I visited companies mine owned in Australia and America.

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Independent-Loan-581@reddit (OP)

!answered

Thanks! They are very common in america for sure. Good to know they aren't here!

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AfterCook780@reddit

I spend a lot of time in a cubicle in my job.

Saying that I'm not technically working while I'm shitting but I am on company time at least.

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duvagin@reddit

the only job in the UK I've ever had in a cubicle was ticket sales for ticketmaster uk in the mid 90s, and even that was a shared non personal cubicle

every other desk based job I've had has been in open plan areas, zero cubicles

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