Events Tagged: "office"

Edwin Seibels invents vertical filing system - replaces horizontal pigeonholes and bound ledgers with standing folders

Vertical filing becomes standard in American business - filing cabinets replace bound ledgers and pigeonhole desks

Frank Gilbreth applies time-motion studies to office work - standardizes filing motions and cabinet heights

William Henry Leffingwell publishes 'Scientific Office Management' - establishes office efficiency as discipline

Over 500,000 women work as typists and stenographers in U.S. - typewriter enables women's entry into office work