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&lt;p&gt;No, you&#39;re not imagining it: it really has been getting smaller. I&#39;m talking about your cubicle (of course).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;border: 0pt none; margin: 5px 15px; float: left;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.vault.com/VCM/blogs/Office_space.png&quot; alt=&quot;Office Space Still&quot; width=&quot;233&quot; height=&quot;166&quot;&gt; Office workers across America now have an average of just 75 square feet of personal space in which to do their jobs, according to &lt;em&gt;The Lookout&lt;/em&gt;. That&amp;rsquo;s down from an average of 90 square feet in 1994.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The reason for the change should be fairly obvious: the more workers you can cram into a space, the cheaper a company&#39;s overheads will be.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But the article doesn&#39;t get into one important detail: whether the space each worker enjoys is their total workplace square footage, or &lt;em&gt;empty&lt;/em&gt; space. It&#39;s likely that it&#39;s the former calculation, which means that workers today may not be doing quite as badly as a straight comparison of the numbers suggests.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For those who are old enough, think back to 1994. Whatever technology was in the average office tended to be on the bulky (and noisy) side: Fax machines; Giant computers with microwave-sized monitors atop them; Printers that almost required their own room, and could only handle a couple of pages per minute; Photocopiers whose sole function was to copy paper; &lt;em&gt;Overhead projectors&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And then there are the things that have since been replaced by technology: Filing cabinets; Giant stacks of paper; Phone books; Reference books; File-o-faxes; Rol-o-dexes&amp;mdash;the list could go on and on.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The bottom line here: we may have less physical space in which to do our jobs than back when the internet was in its infancy, but the chances are most of us also have a lot less stuff cluttering up that space as well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are there any facets of office life in times past that you miss? Anything about your current setup that drives you crazy? Let us know in the comments field below.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Read More:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Lookout: &lt;/em&gt;The Incredible Shrinking American Office Cubicle (hat tip to The Daily Beast)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;--Phil Stott, Vault.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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