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A building you commute to so you can email people in the next room.
means A room or building where people work, usually at desks, handling administrative or professional tasks — or, more abstractly, a position of authority or duty one holds.
from From Latin 'officium,' meaning a service, duty, or function — itself likely a contraction of 'opificium,' from 'opus' (work) and 'facere' (to do). So at its root, an office is simply 'doing the work.' It traveled through Old French 'office' into English in the 1200s, first meaning a duty or service performed, then a position one held (an 'office' of state), and only later the physical room where such duties got done — the place catching the name of the work.
- open plan
- Designed to boost collaboration, mostly boosts headphone sales
- word origin
- From Latin officium, meaning duty or service
- the cubicle
- Invented in 1968 to free workers, not cage them
- sick building
- Poor air can actually dull thinking and decisions
- standing desks
- Ancient: Da Vinci and Dickens wrote upright
dunder mifflin — fictional paper company from nbc's the office, ran for 9 seasons 2005-2013
wernher von braun office — nasa marshall space flight center director's office in huntsville, alabama where apollo program was managed