2006-09-21 14:47:40 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
No, in fact the computers came first.
In the old days, workers had pairs of desks right next to each other.
Since smoking was allowed at the work-place, there was a constant bickering going on about the cloud of smoke in the room.
In those days, there were three women that worked in the "typing pool". But they also learned how to work the facsimile machine that could send a page out in about ten minutes to almost anywhere in the world where there was a facsimile machine. But we had a Teletype machine too. That thing was typing all the time, showing messages and letters coming in from customers from around the world.
We did have this computer that we rented. It was just a terminal and modem. It dialed up to a service that was called CompuServe.
This was 1980.
2006-09-21 15:06:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The term cubicle comes from the Latin cubiculum, for bed chamber. It was used in English as early as the 15th century. It eventually came to be used for small chambers of all sorts, and for small rooms or study spaces with partitions which do not reach to the ceiling.
Some sources attribute the introduction of the cubicle desk to the computer chip manufacturer Intel Inc. during the 1960s. Its creation is generally attributed to Robert Propst, a designer from Colorado who worked for Herman Miller Inc., a major manufacturer of office furniture. It was based on a 1965 prototype and named the Action Office, made up of modular units with an open plan, an entirely novel system for the time.
2006-09-21 22:05:41 · answer #2 · answered by JJStokes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I am right, the dividing of a large room into smaller rooms has been around for a long time. In the older days, they would keep all of the book keepers in one large room for easier exchange of information.
2006-09-21 22:02:52 · answer #3 · answered by andy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
kind of but not like we see it now. basically its put up to house many desks in an area and has acoustic properties so that phones can be used by everyone with out disruption.
2006-09-21 21:50:12 · answer #4 · answered by gsschulte 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I think it has more to do with the IBM Selectric typewriter than the computer.
2006-09-21 22:02:06 · answer #5 · answered by marie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋