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Techies Thought Outside The Box. Then The Boss Decided To Take The Box Away

The Register, Monday, May 26th, 2025

Life in a corporate aquarium didn't go swimmingly

This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Hamish" who sent a story recalling a time when his company hired a temporary workspace for a project.

"It was a fairly old-style office with a glassed off inner office," he told Who, Me?

This column has worked in similar environments, where such offices were derisively described as an "aquarium."

Hamish and his colleagues quite liked the aquarium.

"We enjoyed its sound-proof interior," he wrote.

It also made him mischievous.

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