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Cubed: A Secret History of the WorkplaceBOOK DETAILAmazon Business : Save 25% on your first $200 of business supplies. Register a free business accountHardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (April 22, 2014) Language: English ISBN-10:0385536577 ISBN-13: 978-0385536578 Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.4 x 9.5 inches Shipping Weight: 1.6pounds (View shipping rates and policies)Step By Step To Download Or Read Online1. Click Button "DOWNLOAD" Or "READ ONLINE"2. Sign Up To Acces "Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace"3. Choose the book you like when you register4. You can also cancel your membership if you are bored5. Enjoy and Happy Reading
Book DescriptionYou mean this place we go to five days a week has a history? Cubed reveals the unexplored yetsurprising story of the places where most of the world's work—our work—gets done. From"Bartleby the Scrivener" to The Office, from the steno pool to the open-plan cubicle farm, Cubedis a fascinating, often funny, and sometimes disturbing anatomy of the white-collar world andhow it came to be the way it is—and what it might become. In the mid-nineteenth century clerksworked in small, dank spaces called “counting-houses.” These were all-male enclaves, wherework was just paperwork. Most Americans considered clerks to be questionable dandies, whodidn’t do “real work.” But the joke was on them: as the great historical shifts from agricultural toindustrial economies took place, and then from industrial to information economies, theorganization of the workplace evolved along with them—and the clerks took over. Officesbecame rationalized, designed for both greater efficiency in the accomplishments of clerical workand the enhancement of worker productivity. Women entered the office by the millions, andrevolutionized the social world from within. Skyscrapers filled with office space came to towerover cities everywhere. Cubed opens our eyes to what is a truly "secret history" of changes soobvious and ubiquitous that we've hardly noticed them. From the wood-paneled executive suite tothe advent of the cubicles where 60% of Americans now work (and 93% of them dislike it) to anot-too-distant future where we might work anywhere at any time (and perhaps all the time),Cubed excavates from popular books, movies, comic strips (Dilbert!), and a vast amount ofmanagement literature and business history, the reasons why our workplaces are the way theyare—and how they might be better.
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