They may be getting smaller, but office cubicles are still our humble home away from home — our personal space where unspoken boundaries and codes of conduct need to be respected.
If your office cubicle is neat, clean and orderly, or if it is cluttered and smells of yesterday's lunch, it is a reflection on you and conveys volumes of personal information. The way we treat other people and their cubicles also is a reflection on you.
Here's some tips for your office cubicle:
• If you don't want anyone to ask about it or comment, put it away. Otherwise, anything on display — pictures, proverbs, plaques, — is fair game for curious visitors and conversation.
• When a senior person such as the company president approaches your cubicle to speak with you, stop what you are doing, stand to acknowledge and greet them, shake hands and welcome them as you would guests in your own home, and use their name.
• Put anything you don't wish others to see or read (especially when you are out) away.
• Stagger lunch breaks to respectfully provide some privacy to others at their desks.
• Remember: nail trimming, flossing, applying makeup and such are personal hygiene issues and should be taken care of privately, in the rest room for example.
Don't:
• Discuss anything you don't want others to hear or know about in your open office cubby, even if you lower your voice. Lowering your voice automatically places others on high alert and we instinctively listen more attentively.
• Peer into private workstations as you walk by.
• Clip items from another person's cubicle such as a stapler or calculators.
• "Prairie dog" — pop your head over the top of a cubicle
• Interrupt others.
Do:
• Dispose of lunch and its odor in receptacles away from the cubicle area.
• Be sensitive to wearing strong perfume/cologne at work, especially in small cubicle areas.
• Use headphones to listen to music or anything you know will disrupt your neighbors.
• Turn down cellphone volumes.
Demonstrating small gestures of respect toward your office co-workers and their home-away-from-homes will enhance interoffice harmony while also reflecting well on you.
As always, do lead by example.
Judith Bowman is the president of her own business protocol consulting company.
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