When and how was the concept of "office" as a work place born?

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The work style of "Working in the office after commuting every morning" seems like a product of modern society, but columnistLucy KellawayAccording to Mr., the history of office work seems to be older than imagined.

How the office was invented - BBC News
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In the 18th century England, the writers were in the streetsCoffee houseWe worked together to work, the coffee house was playing the role as an office. Many coffee shop shopkeepers have resided on the upper floor of the store, they seem to have lived in hiring several domestic help.


It was made along the Redonhorn street in London in 1729East India CompanyIt is said that the building of the world is the world's first building built exclusively for the office.University of SwanseaProfessor Hugh Bowen, who is studying historical studies and classical literature, said, "The office of the East India company has a very important meaning in history, because it takes a long time to make a huge bureaucratic company I made it up. " The East India Company began as a trading company engaged in trade with Asia, a large amount of documents to be used for trading occurred, it took 5 to 8 months usually to use a ship for letter interaction. By having the head office, it seems that it helped to gather information on ongoing trade and make various decisions.


In the too busy period, holiday allowance and Saturday's vacation were abolished, it was decided that it was decided that 15 minutes of the hour must be surely in the office after the office entrance / exit was recorded tightly. Also from this time, "workplace stress" has already been considered to have existed, British writer who worked at East India Company for a whileCharles LambWrote that a worker named Richard Burford tried to commit suicide from the office window in the 1790s.


...... It will be the formation of the office. Employees of the East India company who aimed to commit suicide are considered to have been stressed with 40 years of writing letters and preparing a statement without going to the company everyday and having a prospect of promotion There seems to be something that is also familiar to modern society ... ....