• As more employees return to the office, some are being met with limited space — and bedbugs. • While open floorplans are now in style, people used to sit in small cubicles. • Offices used to have typing pools with dozens of typewriters. In 2025, we all have laptops.

Thanks to the popularity of shows like "Mad Men" and "Masters of Sex," people love to see what offices have looked like over the past century … often through dense clouds of cigarette smoke.

Before email, Teams calls, and Slack, messengers wearing roller skates passed notes between office workers, while laptops were preceded by typewriters, calculators, and stacks of paper.

And while some office complexes for major firms today — think Nvidia's futuristic office in Santa Clara or Apple's Cupertino headquarters — feature

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