Office work Office work A mobile office is an office in a truck, or a purpose built shipping container. Mobile offices are often found on construction sites, or at disaster scenes where a temporary office space is needed. Typically, mobile offices in North America feature a single phase split (240 volt center-tapped) electric service that is connected to a nearby source of power, to run small window-unit air conditioners, and the like. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mobile office"
:This article is about traditional meanings of the word office. For computer office applications suites, see List of office suites. ...more on Wikipedia about "Office"
An office lady, often abbreviated OL (Japanese: オーエル), is a female office worker in Japan who performs generally white collar (or, some would say, pink collar) tasks such as serving tea and secretarial or clerical work. Like many unmarried Japanese, OLs often lives with their parents into the adulthood years. Office ladies are usually full-time permanent staff, although the jobs they do usually have little opportunity for promotion, and many OLs leave their jobs to get married. ...more on Wikipedia about "Office lady"
An office manager shall be an employee charged with the general administrative responsibilities of any given office of a corporation. At the least this means responsibility for all paperwork, including its filing and retention over time, and the supervision of the staff doing it. It will include planning and controlling any expenditure that has do to with office work,, and hiring and firing office staff. ...more on Wikipedia about "Office manager"
The Office of the future is a concept dating from the 1940s. It is also known as the " paperless office". After thirty years of unfulfilled prophecies the word "paperless office" has been discredited somewhat. Research and development around the idea continues under the name "office of the future", with quite a few novelties. ...more on Wikipedia about "Office of the future"
Office politics is a slang term for the often counterproductive human factors present between coworkers, in an office environment in the private or public sector. ...more on Wikipedia about "Office politics"
The paperless office was a visionary or publicist's slogan, supposed to apply to the office of the future. The suggestion was that office automation would make the sheet of paper redundant, for routine tasks such as record-keeping and bookkeeping. It came to prominence in the days of the introduction of the personal computer. While the prediction of a PC on every desk was remarkably prescient (or, regarding it as marketing talk, very effective), the paperless nature of office work was less prophetic. Printers and photocopiers have made it much easier to produce documents in bulk, word-processing has deskilled secretarial work involved in writing those documents, and paper proliferates. ...more on Wikipedia about "Paperless office" Tell your opinion about http://www.shortopedia.com
A pink-collar worker is a woman who works for a living in a clean, safe environment, in a job that is considered traditionally female (these "traditions" generally harking back to the first half of the 20th century). The term is formed by analogy to blue collar and white collar. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pink collar"
Salaryman or Salariman ( Japanese: サラリーマン, sararīman) is a Japanese term for a white-collar worker. The word is derived from English salary + man, and has since entered the English language in its own right. The Japanese term for the contrast term, blue-collar worker, is nikutai-rōdō-sha (肉体労働者 ). ...more on Wikipedia about "Salaryman"
A Secure Virtual Office is a software environment which allows people to securely access and run applications on a remote server from an internet connection - as if the application and data was on their own desktop machine. This allows client machines to be cheap personal computers or a thin client. IT administration costs are significantly lower as just a few large servers need to be maintained rather than the many PCs found in a conventional office. ...more on Wikipedia about "Secure Virtual Office"
The modern concept of Small Office and Home Office or SoHo, or Small or Home Office or Single Office/Home Office deals with the category of business which can be from 1 to 10 workers. Larger business enterprises, one notch up the size scale, are often called Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. ...more on Wikipedia about "Small office/home office"
A virtual office or serviced office is a location which allows many people doing business to share an office address and business machines. The facility often includes receptionists, mail support, telephone banks, fax machines, copiers, computers, and sometimes even answering services. ...more on Wikipedia about "Virtual office"
White-collar crimes (a term coined by Edwin Sutherland in 1939) or business crimes are those crimes specifically performed by using paperwork (or computers). They include fraud and bankruptcy fraud, bribery, insider trading, embezzlement, computer crime, medical crime, public corruption, identity theft, pension fund crime, RICO crimes, consumer fraud, occupational crime, securities fraud, financial fraud, and forgery. Since legitimate paperwork is handled by white collar employees, the name was chosen by analogy. Anarcho-capitalists consider government to be a major example of white-collar crime. ...more on Wikipedia about "White-collar crime"
White-collar workers perform tasks which are less "physically laborious" yet often more highly paid than blue-collar workers, who do manual work. They are salaried professionals (such as some doctors or lawyers), as well as employees in administrative or clerical positions. In some studies, managers are considered as part of the white-collar worker grouping, in others they are not. The name derives from the traditional white, button down shirts worn by workers of such professions. The white shirts are easily soiled and therefore distinguish the workers who "do not get their hands dirty." ...more on Wikipedia about "White-collar worker"
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