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the physical manifestation of how much a company actually values your spine.
means the desks, chairs, and storage units that structure where and how work-bodies sit, type, and slowly deteriorate.
from emerged as its own industry with the rise of clerical work in the 1800s, when scribes and accountants needed standardized desks; exploded post-WWII as open-plan offices and cubicles demanded modular, mass-produced systems instead of inherited wooden furniture.
herman milleraeron chair costs more than some employees monthly rent
cubicle inventorrobert propst later called cubicles monolithic insanity
standing desksbarely reduce sitting time studies actually show
steelcase foundedstarted making fireproof metal wastebaskets in 1912
for instance
aeron chair — herman miller 1994 design, moma permanent collection piece
action office — propst and herman miller 1968, became the modern cubicle
ikea bekant — flat-pack desk furnishing millions of home offices since 2015