Call for office mechanisation

Abstract

One of the saddest and least appreciated aspects of Britain's current fight for economic recovery is that the capabilities of possibly half of our 8 million office workers — representing almost one‐third of the nation's total productive labour force — are being under‐utilised. The reason is a reluctance by management to mechanise its clerical routines more efficiently owing to a shortage of available cash. For example, thousands of secretarial work‐hours could be saved weekly if only the latest word processing machines, merely requiring human intervention to type in any specific amendments to a standard format, were adopted more widely for re‐drafting and reformatting all documents needing alteration.

Citation

(1977), "Call for office mechanisation", Education + Training, Vol. 19 No. 4, pp. 106-106. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb016500