CHANGING OFFICE SCENE 1

                             CHANGING OFFICE I

Office activities have undergone a vast change in the last four or five decades.The old dingy,cluttered,stuffy office rooms have vanished and their place we have well ventilated,well-lighted,air conditioned offices with up to date furnishings in alluring designs.Gone are the days when the head of the concern personally supervised the work of clerks.Today,modern offices are organized on scientific principles and their management and administration are in the hands of specialized office manager .Managers do not share the some room with clerks bur sit in separate rooms.The clerks are supervised and controlled with the help of supervisors and though standard office systems,routines,office manuals etc.

            The vast changes have led to an expansion in the scale of production and business activities.As the size of business enterprises grows,there is corresponding increase in the volume of office work.The office activities of today are not performed by general clerks but by specialized clerks-Receptionist,Cashier,Typist,telephone Operators etc.There is also a greater division of labor.Departmentalization of office has been effected.The office managers of today welcome greater use of machines and minimal use of human beings in the office work.Machines-typewriter,telephones,computers,calculators,duplicating machines,dicta phones,accounting machines,intercom,cellular phones,internet system etc.help to save time and labor.Computers are the latest additions to the long list of office machines.They are capable of performing most clerical operations at high speed without errors,Thus modern offices are becoming more and more high-tech.