In a few months, my office is moving and our CEO has declared that we will have short cubicles, like 4' tall. Absolutely no one is happy about this. In addition, our CEO works on the other side of the country. So I had the idea of extending the walls in some way.

My first thought was to get some acoustic panels and attach them to the existing walls in some way, but I can't come up with a good way to do that. Maybe a couple of H-shaped brackets that could sit over the existing walls and into which the panels would sit. But I can't figure out how to construct such a bracket. Wood seems like it would be too thick, and I don't have have any steel fabricating experience.

Another thought would be to attach them with magnets. They'd probably stay up until someone leaned on them. Maybe if they were kept back a foot or two from the outside edge of the cubicle that wouldn't be a problem.

Does anyone else have any ideas?