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Gideon Haigh

The Momentous, Uneventful Day

A Requiem for the Office

Gideon Haigh

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English
Scribe Publications
01 December 2020
Society & Social Sciences; Sociology: work & labour; Office management; Working patterns & practices; Advice on careers & achieving success
Has COVID-19 ushered in the end of the office? Or is it the office's final triumph?

Has COVID-19 ushered in the end of the office? Or is it the office's final triumph?

For decades, futurologists have prophesied a boundaryless working world, freed from the cramped confines of the office. During the COVID-19 crisis, employees around the globe got a taste of it. Confined by lockdown to their homes, they met, mingled, collaborated, and created electronically. At length, they returned to something approaching normality. Or had they glimpsed the normal to come?

In The Momentous, Uneventful Day, Gideon Haigh reflects on our ambivalent relationship to office work and office life, how we ended up with the offices we have, how they have reflected our best and worst instincts, and how these might be affected by a world in a time of contagion. Like the factory in the nineteenth century, the office was the characteristic building form of the twentieth, reshaping our cities, redirecting our lives. We all have a stake in how it will change in the twenty-first.

Enlivened by copious citations from literature, film, memoir, and corporate history, and interspersed with relevant images, The Momentous, Uneventful Day is the ideal companion for a lively current debate about the role offices will play in the future.

'In his new book, Gideon Haigh goes beyond the banal exterior of the office and examines how they've shaped our cities, culture and collective history ... In this deeply researched and engaging analysis, Haigh ponders if this is just a glimpse of things to come.' -Happy Magazine
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Imprint:   Scribe Publications
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 208mm,  Width: 134mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   176g
ISBN:   9781922310491
ISBN 10:   1922310492
Pages:   144
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Gideon Haigh has been a journalist since 1984, and The Momentous, Uneventful Day is his fortieth book. His The Office- a hardworking history won the 2013 Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction.

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