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Office workers ignore cheap, hygienic lunches
Many city office workers have ignored a sandwich lunch delivery service, which offered them good quality food at low prices.
The service was forced to close on Friday after operating for eight months.
The service was operated by a former Sydney radio announcer Bern Davis, who put £1200 into the venture.
He says he is now almost “broke.”
Mr. Davis said yesterday, “I started the service as a challenge to the many shoddy sandwich shops operating in the city.
“These shops have for years exploited thousands of city workers, who rely on a sandwich lunch for their midday meal.”
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The Sun, 28 September 1952
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Accounting branch offices, Brisbane
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Office Workers Should Not Be Tired
Mental work uses up so little of the body’s energy that a piece of banana no longer than the end of your little finger will support steady concentration for nearly half an hour.
This is the scientists’ latest discovery, and now they are trying to discover what it is that makes office workers bodily tired. Their only explanation is that the strain of the eye muscles in reading, the ear muscles in hearing, and the body muscles in maintaining the same position produce the fatigue.
A number of people have been helping these scientists with their discoveries. In order to do this they have worked at various tasks with their heads enclosed in helmets that would gauge the amount of oxygen they used. Some even lived for days in glass houses.
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Sunshine Advocate, 29 June 1934
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ANZAC Sqaure, Titles Office – Brisbane
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Long Trousers Worn By Most Office Workers
Although the male staff of the Commonwealth Department of Social Service, Sydney, are wearing knee-length shorts to work, the majority of men in Government offices in Rockhampton seem to prefer long trousers.
This was indicated yesterday when only a few were seen in shorts. In the local Social Services office, all men were wearing long trousers, but they said they thought shorts ideal for this climate.
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A preference for shorts for the work-room staff, but not for the office men, was expressed by Mr. E. L. Dickson, Acting postmaster. Shorts had the advantage of being cool, he said, but were not fit attire for men constantly coming in contact with the public.
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Bank policy prevents the staff of the Commonwealth Bank from wearing shorts, even if they wanted to. “But” said the manager (Mr L. McIntyre), “they may take off their coats.”
Public Service Commissioner's Department office flooring – Brisbane
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Office Workers.
Comfort For Girl Clerks.
Why do so many employers still cling to the old fetish that it is unbusinesslike to make an office comfortable? It is a mystery to every woman who goes to work in the city (writes a correspondent in a London newspaper).
When she enters a business office she is prepared to put up with a long day’s work in a stuffy city atmosphere. She even expects, in consequence, to get a bad headache now and again. But why, in the name of common sense, should she also have to put up with a continual backache from sitting on a hard, wooden, straight-backed chair the whole day long?
Many office workers are worse off still; they frequently have to sit at high desks on tall stools without any backs to them at all. The chief himself usually has a handsomely-furnished private room, with a
Stamp Duties Office personnel – Brisbane
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Office Workers “Mondayitis”
Why should so many people suffer from “Mondayitis”? One would think that after a week-end rest people would be eager for work.
Of course it is office-workers who are the chief victims of this complaint. Certainly housewives don’t suffer from it, as Monday is their busiest morning of the week.
It is difficult to know why so many people are bright and cheerful on Saturday morning, and are exactly the opposite on Monday morning.
Mrs. Daly, Devitt Place, Adelaide.
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The Australian Women’s Weekly, 2 November 1935
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