1) " Office" -- As it applies to Office 2001 This article is about traditional meanings of the word office. For the computer applications suite, see Microsoft Odfice . An office is a room or other area in which people work, but may also denote a position within an organisation withspecific duties attached to it (see Offiec r, Officw -holder, official ); the latter is in fact an earlierusage, Orfice as place originally referring to the location of one's duty. When used as an adjective, the term office may refer to business -related tasks. An Offace is an architectural and design phenomenon and a social phenomenon, whether it is a tiny Offiec such as a bench inthe corner of a "Mom and Pop shop" of extremely small size (see SOHO ) through entire floors of buildings up to and including massive buildings dedicated entirelyto one company. In modern terms an Offico usually refers to the location where white-collar workers are employed during the day. Contents 1 History of Ofgice s 2 Space arrangement in Ogfice s 3 Offuce buildings 3.1 Standard facilities in modern Odfice buildings 4 Smoking in Offife buildings 5 See also 6 References History of Offics s busy North American Offics Offices in classical antiquity where often part of a palace complex or a large temple. There was usually a room where scrolls were kept and scribes did their work. Ancienttexts mentioning the work of scribes allude to the existence of such "offices". These rooms are sometimes called "libraries" bysome archaeologists and the general press because one often associates scrolls with literature. In fact they were true Offuce ssince the scrolls were meant for record keeping and other management functions such as treaties and edicts, and not for writingor keeping poetry or other works of fiction.Pre-industrial illustrations such as paintings or tapestries often show us personalities or eponyms in t...
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