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Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life Episodes

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  1. The Office Is Where We Are

    Lucy Kellaway looks at the increasingly blurred boundaries between the office and home.

  2. Whatever Happened to the Paperless Office?

    Lucy Kellaway charts the impact of computers on office life.

  3. Designing Office Space

    Lucy Kellaway looks at the changes in office layout over the last 100 years.

  4. Sex and the Office

    Changes in attitudes to sex, from the 'office wife' to sexual harassment.

  5. The Invention of the Manager

    How the manager went from being seen as a charlatan to a captain of industry

  6. The Telephone and New Office Technology

    Lucy explores how new technology, like the telephone, changed life in the office.

  7. The Arrival of Women in the Office

    Lucy describes how women entered the white-collar workforce in the late 19th century.

  8. The Career Ladder

    Lucy Kellaway charts the emergence of the career ladder as a way to motivate staff.

  9. Getting a Job: Nepotism or Meritocracy?

    Lucy reveals how hiring the 'best man for the job' wasn't always the way it was done.

  10. The Beginnings of the Modern Office

    Lucy looks at Charles Lamb's account of life at the East India Company in the early 1800s.