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Office workers in Executive Building Room No. 123 prior to alterations, Brisbane

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Efficiency In The Office.

It is somewhat strange that the office should be the last department of an industrial or commercial organisation to be affected by modern ideas of efficiency in method and equipment. From the offices have gone forth the orders and instructions which during the past few years have reorganised and renovated our factories in accordance with the latest discoveries of more effective systems and machinery. Yet the offices themselves have in a great number of cases remained unmoved by the great impulse which they passed on to the works. The head was too much engaged in looking after the efficiency of the hands to attend to its own well-being.

Bootmakers’ wives fo the worst shod, as the proverb has it; perhaps it is for the same reason that the office is so often as careless of its own efficiency as it is careful of

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Survey Office Annual Report card punch and verifier – Brisbane

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American Office Workers Ban Long Hemline

Office girls working in New York’s Empire State Building have announced that they have formed an association, pledged not to wear the new long skirts that fashion dictators are foistering on women the world over.

The founder of the movement, gave various reasons for the stand the club is taking. Typical complaints from some of the members are: “I would feel just like a tent,” “I don’t want to look as though I am always sitting down,” and “Think of the dirt we would pick up riding to work on the sub-way.”

Economic reasons are the strongest however; to wear the new fashions they must junk their present wardrobe; they will ask for rises to cope with their buying and apparently if they do not get the rise they go on strike.

And so the association slogan is: “To save America, save the

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Survey Office Annual Report card punch and verifier, Ms D Simmons and Ms C Duncan – Brisbane

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Slippers In The Office.

Has an employer the right to dismiss his typist because she wears slippers while working in his office? A young woman, at the end of January, told the judge in a Paris court that she had been in the employ of the manager of a bank.

Some time ago she was operated on for appendicitis. When she resumed work she experienced pain when she wore her elegant shoes. So, on arriving at her office, the first thing she did, following the advice of her doctor, was to put on comfortable slippers. This was noticed by her employer, who said he would not allow it.

As the typist refused to wear her shoes in the office the bank manager told her she had to choose between her post and her slippers. She selected the slippers, and was dismissed. The judge decided to think the matter

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