Office

The Object Lessons series, published in association with The Atlantic, explores the hidden lives of ordinary things and uncovers the lessons they hold about ourselves and the modern world, The meaning of the office--along with its material, spatial and social characteristics--has shifted radically over the decades, reflecting changing attitudes about work throughout the industrialized world, Eclectic and wide-ranging, reflecting the fact that an office is everything from a workplace, a revolutionary bundle of computer software, and a hit television serie