Have you ever stopped to consider where the idea of the office desk you sit at each day came from? Of course, desks of some description have been in use since the earliest of times, but the office desk as we know it has evolved over more than three centuries with many revolutions along the […]
Organisational ‘silo’ syndrome is a mind-set where barriers develop between and among an organisation’s departments and functions. The term ‘silo’ is a metaphor suggesting a similarity between grain silos that segregate one type of grain from another and the segregated parts of an organisation. Organisational silos are a problem for businesses both small and large […]
The 19th century saw the introduction of the mass-produced office desk…which up until now had been largely handcrafted to suit the individual… This was the era of the ‘Industrial Revolution’ and the office desk was expected to hold and do more during a day’s work… The ability to produce cheap machine-made paper brought with it […]
