Our desks, our destiny?

Discusses the passages in the memoir `The Soccer War,' by Polish foreign correspondent Ryszard Kapuscinski on the socio-economic realities of desks in workplaces. How desks warp ordinary human interaction, tilt the balance of power and destroy friendships; Author's reflection on his own desk; What kind of desks are used by Canadian executives such as Maureen Kempston Darkes of GM Canada.