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A short history of the office

  • Written by Agustin Chevez, Adjunct Research Fellow, Centre For Design Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology
imageIn the seventeenth century lawyers, civil servants and other new professionals began to work from offices in Amsterdam, London and Paris. British Museum/Flickr

For centuries people have been getting up, joining a daily commute or retreating to a room, to work. The office has become inseparable from work.

Its history illustrates not only how our work...

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