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An office (also office, office, office room; Leaning word from the French: Office) is an area, in which administrative activities are predominantly exercised such as letters, vintages, a counting and a discussing.
Depending upon task an office serves an individual person or many persons (open-plan office) as work space. To the equipment of an office belong typically desks, cabinets and/or shelves as well as means of communication such as telephone and fax equipment. Since approximately 1990 also computers are to be found in most offices, which serve both for the treatment of the documents as well as for communication.
New office concepts consider to the change of the office work by the dismantling of bureaucracy and the developments of the information and communicationses.
Office is also designation of an authority or a committee, for example the office international of the Poids et the Mesures (BIPM) in Paris or the office for the coordination of the Befrachtung of sea-going vessels in Moscow.
Researchers of the Ludwig Maximilians university Munich found out that humans with office jobs are inclined to tiredness, because they get too little daylight. While a sunny day radiates approx. 100,000 lux on humans, there is in well illuminated offices only 400 lux. Even who works at rain weather outside, would get 10,000 lux and the internal clock opportunity to adapt the outside time. If the internal clock receives too to little light, it limps "afterwards". The consequences of one durably "wrongly" ticking clock can be sleep disturbances, Energielosigkeit and depressions. Particularly night workers are affected by it.
The term office is derived from the French office, which means itself again from old-French bure, burel which translated into German as much as "rough Wollstoff", with which desks or - desks were covered at later time. This old-French term has its origin in latin: there the word means burra "zottiges garb". The connection to the desk lies in the meaning development table" covered by "cloth" over "with cloth to "desk" and finally to "area with desk" and/or for today's meaning. In the today's French and in some other languages the term office designates both furniture and the area, in German however only the area.
See also: Office service
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