An office is generally a room or other area where people work, but may also denote a position within an organization with specific duties attached to it; the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one's duty. When used as an adjective, the term "office" may refer to business-related tasks.
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[Best of 2019] Steelcase Gesture Review: How to spend $1,000 on a chair and not regret it
A chair is just a chair, right? That's what I've always thought. As someone who gets to work from home, I will write from ...
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Police arrest head of $2.7M Ugandan cryptocurrency scam
Police have arrested one of the directors of a cryptocurrency startup in Uganda that closed suddenly and made off with investors' ...
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Ugandan cryptocurrency startup promises jobs — steals employees’ money instead
A number of Ugandan citizens have been left in the lurch after being promised jobs at a cryptocurrency startup that's gone ...
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We spent a workday on a treadmill desk so you didn't have to
Recently, we spent a full seven hours on a treadmill desk. Yes, while we were working. Here are the things we learnt that ...
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A single cryptocurrency whale caused Bitcoin's 2017 bull run, research claims
The same academic who, last year claimed that Bitcoin's 2017 bull run was sparked by market manipulation, is now saying that ...
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Watch me test a ‘walking desk’ for 7 hours straight because why not
These days we're meant to have it all: a great job and an fit body. But is this possible? Well, we spent a day working on ...
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Bitfinex: NYAG cited no authority to demand Tether documents
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex is dead set on holding on to its documents despite objections from the office of the New ...
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How to keep focus in the office
From meetings to co-workers, it’s hard to get any meaningful work done in a modern office. Keeping focus is hard and productivity ...
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7 easy tricks you can use to improve your office on a budget
As a designer, I often get asked by growing companies how they can improve their offices and create maximum impact with a ...
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Coinbase fires 30 workers and closes Chicago office after just one year
Coinbase is scaling back its efforts to create a new "matching engine" for high-frequency trading, and will instead focus ...
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10 ways to annoy your coworkers on Slack
If you work at a company with remote workers or just a buttload of employees, odds are you’re using Slack to communicate. ...
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The MoodoGo will let you make smells wherever you may roam
At CES 2019, the company behind the Moodo scent diffuser has announced a new product: the MoodoGo – a portable machine ...
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Here's how to throw an office party using your Mac laptop
Just follow these instructions and you'll be throwing a raging office party using only your Mac laptop and some common supplies. ...
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Apple will splash out $1 billion on new Austin campus
After losing the title of the most valuable company of the world to Microsoft, Apple is looking to expand its network of ...
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Thousands of Google employees walk out to protest harassment, inequality
Google employees today took to the streets in a massive protest. At 11:10 a.m., in every time zone in which the staged walkout ...
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Open floor plans should be killed with fire — or sound
Research shows that because noise pollution is so bad in open floor plans, it causes productivity to drop by 20 percent.
