Talk:Office/Archives/2012

Office building, Office complex and Commercial building

"Office building" redirects to "Office", yet the commenter above who wanted more info on buildings was told to look elsewhere and that this wasn't an article about buildings. "Office complex" was started by a spammer just so he could have something to stick his link in; it's little more than a stub. "Commercial building" is even more pitiful -- it's just a 22-word stub (that is if "etc." counts as a word).

I came across "Office complex" while cleaning up spam. I went looking for something to merge it into and didn't find much. Anyone have any ideas? Perhaps "Office building" needs its own article now? --A. B. ^(talk) 02:44, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Section "See also "

The topics covered here may be grouped into sections Sanjiv swarup (talk) 05:21, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

I agreed, because the topics like factory, warehouse are related to physical office and the topics like Online office, office manager are related to virtual office. 59.183.26.122 (talk) 06:56, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

I should say that its a wise idea to segregate the See Also section into several further sections as it would narrow our focus on link that we are looking for. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.92.138.194 (talk) 15:19, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

suggestion for entry for inclusion into "See Also"

Suggested for entry for inclusion into "See Also" = Online Office Sanjiv swarup (talk) 15:35, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Grades

Can anyone shed any light about what is meant by a "Grade 'A' Office". Thanks in advance. Rawclaw (talk) 10:19, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Office theft

I came upon the second Office Robbery article before it got deleted. I agree that there is a place for the topic and I really don't think the article should have been deleted. But, starting as a section here is not a bad idea, at least until it can be cleaned up. Along those lines, some things to work on:

1. Using robbery as the title is way too sensational, and also deceptive and confusing. Though one of your sources does discuss robbery specifically, the first paragraph, and probably the greater focus issue, is about employee theft. If there's no force, or threats of force, there's no robbery. For this reason, I changed the name of the section. Specific subsections might be appropriate if more info on each class of crime comes up, but that need not be the case.
2. Clean up the use of sources. For instance, the Ohio statistics IS about robbery, but the article entry doesn't make that clear. I also read that article, and using percentages isn't useful. Sure, 44% of equipment stolen/targetted in a robbery is office equipment, but equipment only makes up 10% (going by memory) of all items stolen. Possibly skewing it the other way is the fact that "documents" is a separate category, and I believe securities might be as well. Those sound like the type of items that would be targetted for a robbery specifically from an office, but there's no breakdown for those. In short, without original research, that citation is lacking.
3. Imrpove sources. The first one is good enough. The second one is a sound source, but note the above. The third however is way too questionable. Answers.com pulls has it's own produced articles, but also acts as a wiki, and it's not clear which the dictionary entry is. It's really a poor source. Current sources aside, non-web sources would improve things dramatically. I'm sure that at least the petty theft stuff has come up in various topical magazines as well as news paper articles. It may take some hunting, but it's out there.
4. For now, the whole last paragraph is worded poorly. It should be fixed.

19:21, 25 October 2008 (UTC). Correct sig, IMHO (talk) 23:12, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Offices in Popular Culture section?

Does this article really need an "Offices in Popular Culture" section? I propose to remove it.  dmyersturnbull  ⇒ talk 03:16, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

American terms

Both "Mom and Pop shop" and "White collar worker" are cheifly North American phrases. I suggest more international terms such as: "Family run business" and "Office worker" are used. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.9.184.44 (talk) 18:48, 1 April 2011 (UTC)