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Office

See Microsoft Office.


office
1. (in Britain) a department of the national government
2. in the US
a. a governmental agency, esp of the Federal government
b. a subdivision of such an agency or of a department
3. a place where tickets, information, etc., can be obtained
4. Christianity
a. a ceremony or service, prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities, esp one for the dead
b. the order or form of these
c. RC Church the official daily service
d. short for divine office

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Almost as emotive as the open-plan office is the "hot-desk," the idea being that all desks are equal.
The site could have been filled with artificially lit and air-conditioned floors like a huge open-plan office, but to meet the accommodation requirements in a civilised way, giving people daylight, views, air and visible spatial progressions, demanded ingenious exploitation of every opportunity for transparency.
Open-plan offices are the architect's way of creating physical space that supports that business strategy.
 
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