The mark of the contemporary office is not the file.
Before he does, though, he treats readers to some very funny riffs on contemporary office life.
There is, for instance, a minimalist design trend taking hold in contemporary office spaces: out of favor are private walled-in offices — and even private cubicles.
The Lyric's artistic director Jimmy Fay gives his production an austere tone, with the action unfolding in a contemporary office.
Part or all of this 25,455-square-foot two-story contemporary office building is available; the minimum space offered is 4,492 square feet.
The Museum hopes it will be able to move to the Custom House if Congress approves the approximately $24 million needed to bring the building up to contemporary office-building standards.
Setting his novel in a Chicago advertising agency that has been forced to lay off workers, Ferris brilliantly captures the fishbowl quality of contemporary office life, where nothing much happens and the smallest events take on huge significance.
It is a travesty of justice, goes their line, that any of the one-time Soviet collaborators who took over mother Poland should be allowed to hold contemporary office.The argument is partly one of principle, partly self-interest.
In an opinion piece in The New York Times in 1907, Flagg must have been thinking of his rising neighbor when he called contemporary office buildings "monuments to greed," and said, "Artistic considerations have been thrown to the winds".
The closest comparison that can be made is with Joshua Ferris's Then We Came to the End, which shares a similarly bravura command of narrative voice and a jaded look at the dehumanising world of contemporary office life.
