The reason for offices having become more "home like", more cozy, and comfortable lies in the fact, that we spend more and more time at our work place. The comfort of our present work places, looks, at the first sight, like an advantage, while, in fact, it's a sad truth about our lives, the center of which shifted from "Home Sweet Home" to the upper floors of Diamond Towers. .
In this essay we will see what new advantages our current work places have brought us. Next we will discuss the question about the price we pay for this new comfort. Then we will try to find an answer if it's worth the deal, and, finally, we will see how we can enjoy the new age of comfort and still stay ourselves.
Discussions of new office working conditions often conjure up visions of a dynamic and growing New Economy, where technologically sophisticated workers, spend their workdays on-line on creative and exciting projects in big, bright offices, listening to Beethoven on the background. Indeed, today we are facing significant improvements in organization of our current work place. It is full of light. It is well air-conditioned. It is full of different facilities; we can see plenty of them in hi-tech firms. I am talking about lounge floors, green corners, cafes, and even gyms. Divided cabins (boxes) create an illusion of privacy, from the one side, and better communication, from the other. Private tables and divided space give an opportunity to create "my own room" like atmosphere; women have special talent in gathering this stuff - it can be a wide collection of furry creatures, or a full photo documentation from honeymoon to pictures of first child, or even them both.
Talking about new advantages of office working conditions it's important to touch upon the insurance subject and plenty of new employment laws that protect us today. When applying to a new work place we are mostly provided with pension, health insurance, sometimes stock options, and other benefits.
The idea of a corrupted government has only a historical significance. ... It will improve the quality of life for the people it is supposed to govern. ... Women were not to be looked at as equals. ... Economics and sociology were problems during his life, for Bellamy to make such predictions as he did he had to have some idea of how our economy would run. ... Again everybody has credit and is considered to be equal. ...
That is an issue that a lot of Americans deal with today. ... Things like the way we talk about this issue in our culture, how our values shape the messages about this issue, and how socialization processes influence how we understand this issue. ... Some people can look at poor people and how they live and not think anything of it at all. ... There are many different ways that we change our culture and fight poverty. ... In conclusion, poverty has been a long standing problem in America and action has to be taken in order to change it. ...
Looking Backward A Novel by Edward Bellamy How would you feel if one day you woke up and you were in a completely different world from what you were used to? ... I think some of the main things that I would have to get used to in my life would be school, school activities, family life, social life, and how I would react to my new lifestyle. ... In our society today teachers don't get the credit they should or get paid like they should. ... In Bellamy's world there really is no competition so that would change my school life drastically. ... Our society today is based large...
Has technology shaped our society? ... This, evidently, changes the way society works. ... But how did we come to live in a consumers society? ... And even today, when we look at cars, cellular phones and computers we still want the best to make an impression on the people around us. ... It has shaped our society into a consumers society. ...
History has been rewritten to accommodate the frail minds of the passive masses, and other than advances in an entertainment industry, science has been deemed a mindless hobby. ... You cannot fathom how the world could ever turn to that. ... How often do you sit with your family and ask more than, "How was your day,"? ... Our classics' histories are being changed to lessen the hatred and hardships endured, but is that not an even greater insult in itself? ... A portrait of who we are painted the way we wanted to look, despite our real emotions or demeanor. ...
Nine years ago, when I decided to choose cheerleading over basketball, I would have never expected how drastically cheer would change my life. ... There are nine seniors here so there is no reason why no one has stepped up and been a leader.... It took me a second to realize today is the day. ... I thought some how this might give us a better chance of winning. ... " My team and I look at each other with tears in our eyes and at that moment we realized our dream was about to come true. ...
Change is a factor of life. ... Without change we wouldn't be here right now, it has allowed us to evolve into the everyday normality as we perceive it today. ... This shows us how much our world has changed in the span of almost 150 years, we have shaped and changed our country to something totally different to what it used to be. ... We all have our own history of changes, and also our own future. ... In perspective of the whole world we are either directly or indirectly affected by change, if we are unhappy with it we can try and make our own changes, but in the end all that matters i...