Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
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