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Office boy

12 December 2020

9:00 AM

12 December 2020

9:00 AM

The Momentous, Uneventful Day: A Requiem for the Office Gideon Haigh

Scribe, pp.144, $25

For most of us, going to work means going to an office, to sit at a desk and perform bureaucratic tasks. Haigh, an experienced journalist and author, believes that the office has been the dominant cultural institution of the past hundred years, shaping both the urban environment and the modern psyche.

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