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Wall-free office spaces did not quite work out the way their utopian inventors intended, as they became tools for

exploitation of labor.

Wall-free office spaces could have worked out the way their utopian inventors intended had companies cared for workers'

satisfaction.

Wall-free office spaces did not quite work out as companies don't believe in democratic ideology.

Wall-free office spaces did not quite work out as desired and therefore cubicles came into being.

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