I used to work for an office furniture sales company, with one of my tasks being to help our clients plan their office layouts, both new and existing. If you've seen the movie Office Space, you remember poor Milton was continually relocated within his cubicle, then moved to the basement- the corporate goal being to force Milton to leave. This is a very real practice in the corporate world. I was called in by HR managers, bosses, middle management, supervisors, etc., quite often, in order to “help our employees' work flow” but when the actual designs were being done we could tell who these snakes were looking to run out of the company without firing them. “Why don't we move this desk so they face away from the entry” or “put this one cube by this column (thus causing less space for them to work)”. I once moved someone's desk on their day off to the end of a dead end hallway, no where near anyone else. We'd also remove personal storage, coat hooks, or even change their chairs from several hundred dollar quality type to cheap office-max type chairs. The tactics were endless but the goal was the same everywhere- we will pay you BIG BUCKS to help us make this guy/girl so annoyed that they quit so we don't have to pay them unemployment.