Intel Corp (INTC)

[SemiconEng]

Innovative Intel

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Colorful throw pillows, employees lounging in comfy armchairs and sofas, the wide-open floor plan -- nothing suggests the rigidly ordered efficiency of your standard Intel cubicle farm, with its acres of 9-foot-by-9-foot cells.

And that's exactly what Herman D'Hooge had in mind. The "innovation strategist" leading Intel's User Centered Design Group, D'Hooge pulled strings all over the company so that he could knock down a few cubicle walls at the company's Hawthorn Farm campus in Hillsboro and create a living room environment. The resulting work space, he says, is more conducive to ad hoc interaction, creativity and fun.