The phrase "a sort of office" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a place or space that functions similarly to an office but may not fit the traditional definition.
Example: "The co-working space felt like a sort of office, with its shared desks and collaborative atmosphere."
Alternatives: "a type of office" or "a kind of office".
I understand completely how Facebook has become a sort of office banter for people who aren't physically together.
As a result, many Americans who work for companies that embrace flexible hours are confronting a sort of office class warfare.
Mr. Naeim works out of a large tent that Hezbollah put up in Dahiya to serve as a sort of office for reconstruction and distribution of assistance.
For general high-camp production numbers, "Turkey Lurkey Time" — a sort of office Christmas-party hoedown — ranks right up there in dopiness with Holocaust survivors dancing over barbed wire in "Exodus".
Touring with Mr. Costello, he began performing solo, and when he got home to London, where he still lives with his wife and 6-year-old son, he emulated Mr. Hiatt's habit of "going to work every day" to write songs in a sort of office at a performance space in a neighborhood pub.
"Our house has turned into a sort of office," he explained in a speech before the American Humanist Assn.
(Even here, though, the paranormality is in evidence: the senior figures in the downstairs drug gang have taken over Habib's sitting room as a sort of office-cum-R&R space).
So what happens when you actually stop ignoring those deep-seated urges to flip your desk on its side and say at a frustrated but respectful volume to a sort-of listening office space: I can't do this anymore!
His office was in a sort of prefab office park just outside town.
He has never run for any sort of office himself and would probably have lost if he had.
And you have the Haqqani group, which is a sort of branch office of the Afghan Taliban.
