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Two windows and a view of everyone else's envy.

means The high-status office at the corner of a building, prized for having windows on two walls instead of one, and used as shorthand for top executive rank.

from Simple architecture turned into social code: buildings have more exterior walls at their corners, so corner rooms get double the windows and light while interior offices get none. Mid-20th-century American business culture latched onto that literal perk as a symbol — the best offices were handed to the most senior executives, so 'corner office' became a stand-in phrase for climbing to the top, with no deeper wordplay than geometry plus hierarchy.

origin
valuable because old buildings had no air conditioning
status symbol
exists mainly to be seen from the cubicles
irony
open-plan offices made it rarer, not extinct
modern twist
remote work made the view your webcam background
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