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I remember typing pools...

Steve Bridger

I remember my first day at work. The summer of 1981. County Hall. The smell of polished corridors and trolleys laden three-feet high with leaver arch files and buff folders. I opened a door and there it was: The Typing Pool. Page 3 of The Sun were always plastered on the walls of the printing unit whenever I was asked to make errands. We still had a few discussion threads on that topic in the early days here - in 2004!


And I've seen Made in Dagenham, the movie!


I only mention this as the CIPD published a report called Work Audit today, a fascinating look at how the world of work has changed
in Britain since 1952.


I thought we could share our own compelling vignettes of social history comparing changes in the way we work.


What do you reckon?


Steve

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  • My first post-university job in the summer of 1993 was at the Royal London Hospital at Whitechapel on their secretarial bank. I spent the summer in the medical records department of outpatients and I was given my own workspace, mug and an ashtray. I was a smoker then, as was the majority of others, and we puffed away merrily in the outpatients' building. Seems an alien concept now when I look back.
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  • My first post-university job in the summer of 1993 was at the Royal London Hospital at Whitechapel on their secretarial bank. I spent the summer in the medical records department of outpatients and I was given my own workspace, mug and an ashtray. I was a smoker then, as was the majority of others, and we puffed away merrily in the outpatients' building. Seems an alien concept now when I look back.
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