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The standard image of a cubicle in American business is not generally looked upon with fond memories. On this episode of the Glass is in Session podcast, Liz Morley, content marketing manager for Clarus, sat down with host Sean Heath to discuss the positive aspects of the humble cubicle and how Clarus is taking those good parts to the future of office environments. Some office environments lend themselves to individual work efforts, however, in a previous job, Morley experienced the drastic change that occurs in an office environment when new collaborative approaches are embraced. “It really allowed people to have the choice of where to work,” she said. “The power of choice is very strong, in terms of engaging your employees. If you let them make the choice of where they feel they’re going to do their best work, they are a lot more likely to be engaged and they’re going to be a lot more productive.” While it’s easy to perform a survey to measure employee engagement, it is not necessarily easy to interpret that data. “It’s so qualitative,” according to Morley. “There’s so many factors involved. The problem with employee engagement is that there are so many factors that you can change one of them, but you don’t necessarily know that there’s a direct correlation," she said. “You really have to look at it holistically and get data about what your employees are needing. What do they feel like would help them be better at their job?”