Office space
The disappearing desktop
November 14, 2012: 5:00 AM ETSay good-bye to Cubeland. The office space of tomorrow will be shedding a lot of excess baggage.
By Jennifer Abbasi / Graphic Nicolas Rapp
FORTUNE -- LinkedIn recently asked more than 7,000 members of its professional network in 18 countries about which office supplies they see going the way of the dodo in the next five years. Topping the list was the tape recorder. Roll over the graphic to see seven other habits and tools destined for extinction.
This story is from the November 12, 2012 issue of Fortune.
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