Office

An office is generally a room or other area in which people work, but may also denote a position within an organization with specific duties attached to it; the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one's duty.

An office is an architectural and design phenomenon and a social phenomenon, whether it is a tiny office such as a bench in the corner of a "Mom and Pop shop" of extremely small size through entire floors of buildings up to and including massive buildings dedicated entirely to one company. In modern terms an office usually refers to the location where white-collar workers are employed.

Theft in the workplace is a common occurrence. Surveys indicate that the majority of office workers (58%) have admitted to having taken office supplies for their personal use. The most commonly stolen office supplies include pens/pencils (78% admit to this), followed by self-adhesive "sticky" notes (44%) and paper clips (40%). Some employees are even taking decorations like plants, paintings and office furniture (i.e. stools, chairs, shelves) (2%).