January 2022
Beginner
136 pages
4h 15m
English
‘When I use a word’, Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less’. ‘The question is’, said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things’, Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass, first published in 1871.
A key feature of the traditional factory or office is the allocation of individual workers to particular premises and even specific locations within them. In fact, this is the origin of the non-hyphenated term ‘workplace’; that is, a place where paid work is done. The principle of allocating every person to a place and every place to a person is embedded in traditional workplace design ...