Are you sitting comfortably?

Management Accounting (UK), January, 2000

So how do you fancy these terms and conditions of employment? That's what working life was like in the last century. And now--have things really got better? Anne Goodman, CIMA Careers Officer for South Wales and the South West, takes a look at some of the changes in the office life over the last 100 years. (All but one of the quotes below are taken from transcripts of interviews with some of the first members of the Institute.)

Accommodation

`There were sloping desks, you've seen them with Bob Cratchett, that type of thing. But they weren't just single, they were long desks ...