<html><body><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>JLab employee....<br></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I have a personal example. In my office, which I share with 7 other <br style="" data-mce-style="">persons (3 old guys, 2 minorities, 2 middle aged, 3 young guys), we have <br style="" data-mce-style="">a varied group. Of the 8, I only work closely with 2 others. Normally, <br style="" data-mce-style="">I would have little to no interaction with the others. However, since we <br style="" data-mce-style="">are in cubicles, I do see them and acknowledge them. This has led to us <br style="" data-mce-style="">interacting with one another on a more positive, personal level so that <br style="" data-mce-style="">now we are actually co-workers and not 8 individuals that happen to work <br style="" data-mce-style="">at the same company.<br style="" data-mce-style=""><br style="" data-mce-style="">Now, I am not saying that everyone should work in cubicles. Some <br style="" data-mce-style="">people, due to confidentially requirements of their job, have to be in <br style="" data-mce-style="">private offices. And there are certainly others, due to their <br style="" data-mce-style="">demonstrated history, that don't work well with others and it is best <br style="" data-mce-style="">that they have private offices because they still have something of <br style="" data-mce-style="">value to offer the organization.<br style="" data-mce-style=""><br style="" data-mce-style="">But if the goal is to remove walls between people and encourage them to <br style="" data-mce-style="">interact with each other, then you have to be willing to start with <br style="" data-mce-style="">removing the walls.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>