I remember typing pools...

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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  • @ Elaine Robertson, you made me smile because I had *exactly* the same experience as you with the computer whilst working on the bank at Whitechapel Hospital - no idea how to turn on, save, print or close down and the only training I had was trial and error!


    I think I might have been wrongly promoted from filing to secretarial because my only aptitude test at interview stage was having to recite the alphabet (which of course I could only do to the rhythm of the alphabet song!).  


     

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  • @ Elaine Robertson, you made me smile because I had *exactly* the same experience as you with the computer whilst working on the bank at Whitechapel Hospital - no idea how to turn on, save, print or close down and the only training I had was trial and error!


    I think I might have been wrongly promoted from filing to secretarial because my only aptitude test at interview stage was having to recite the alphabet (which of course I could only do to the rhythm of the alphabet song!).  


     

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