Careers: How does your office affect your work? Spectrum visited four U.S. companies to help answer the question posed by this article. Do any of them sound familiar?

Engineers at one large company in the United States work in an environment that stimulates communication and socializing. Offices are divided by brightly colored, cloth-covered partitions. Many of the employees became EEs because they enjoyed electronics as a hobby, and they find many aspects of their jobs fun. They like to work in groups.