From Root to Fruition to Modern Function
When we hear the word office it usually involves picturing a
man with a necktie, clean and slick working in a cubicle inside a
huge building, it’s a place where hundreds even thousands of
people work solely for one...
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From Root to Fruition to Modern Function
When we hear the word office it usually involves picturing a
man with a necktie, clean and slick working in a cubicle inside a
huge building, it’s a place where hundreds even thousands of
people work solely for one company, with each person assigned
individual tasks.
The word office was derived from the word
officium in Latin; during those times office or officium is not
referring to a place rather a person of ranks or status such as a
magistratus by definition officers possessing judicial and
executive powers during the days of ancient Rome.
As time
went on reaching the time of classical antiquity offices were
usually a part of buildings such as temples and or
palaces/castles, where a room can be found containing scrolls
and where scribes did their work, scribes are responsible for
writing documents, books helping the city keep track of their
records.
It wasn’t until the high Middle Ages 1000-1300 did the
world saw the rise of printing press
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