Office

An office (also writing room, office, office, office rooms, study rooms, a loanword from the French Bureau) is a space primarily administrative tasks such as writing, reading, arithmetic and discussion be exercised in the. When authorities and lawyers, it is now usually referred to as firm.

Generally

Depending on the task, an office of a single person or many people used ( Cubicle ) as a work space. Facilities include an office office furniture such as desks, cabinets and / or shelves as well as means of communication such as telephone and fax machine. Since the mid- 1980s in most offices also to find computers that are used both for the legal paperwork as well as for communication. The first offices were equipped in the late 1970s with computers.

The changing nature of office work by reducing bureaucracy and the development of information and communication technology wear new office concepts statement. But office concepts alone are no longer sufficient to ensure good and healthy working. Using the checks " Good office work" for example, companies can perform a potential analysis to develop a new quality and culture of the office work and to promote the health and productivity of employees. This helps the check, the change of office work to oppose and to meet new challenges.

Office is also a reference to an authority or a body, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States, the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures of ( BIPM) in Paris and the Office for the Coordination of chartering of ships in Moscow.

Etymology

The word office is derived from the French bureau, which in turn, derived from the Old French burel bure, which in German translates as " coarse woolen cloth " means, were covered with the desks or desks at a later time. This old French term has its origins in Latin: there does the word burra namely " shaggy garment". The connection to the desk is in the development of meaning of " cloth " over " covered with cloth table " to "Desktop" and finally to " room with a desk ," the present meaning. Originating in Germany was the French spelling the Bureau or in the plural Bureaux in use. In today's French and some other languages, the word office, both the furniture and the room, in German but only referred to the room.