Last year Analysys International, a research company in Beijing, asked a broad cross-section of office workers if they saw themselves as diaosi.
The glass and metal doors that led into the main section of the post office remain, as does the post office's main counter, now used by the nurses and receptionists who work for Dr. Ippolito and his three associates, Drs. Aida M. Cruz-Soto, Margaret M. Coughlan and Michael S. McCormick.
In the section of the office where Mahdavi does architectural interior design, several assistants were seated in front of computers.
Over the years, our section of the office accumulated quite a collection of binoculars, and there was even a telescope perched at the ready by the window.
He played a personal role in formulating foreign policy across the board and was always at hand providing counsel and a sense of direction when a crisis blew up or a section of the office came under strain.
As corporate sprawl becomes the norm, some companies are encouraging their workers to break off into entrepreneurial, startup-like teams: giving a section of the office, in effect, to serve as the old California garages that built Hewlett-Packard, Apple and other innovative tech giants.
One section of her office has been turned into a television studio where she and her cameraman record each week's online lessons.
They built a talent agency that recruits recent college graduates to work in portfolio companies, and they have a section of the office where portfolio companies can connect with potential Fortune 500 clients.
We have a whole section of our office researching new design and construction techniques.
Conducting phone calls was cited as a barrier to using the workstation standing by a majority of participants in the open plan section of the office, despite being provided with a headset device that made this ergonomically possible.
You get a receipt with a long number on it, which you can put into the "track and confirm" section of the post office website; you can also opt to get an email sent to you when the package is delivered.
