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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