Discusses the nature of modern office automation, microcomputer access controls that can be activated to improve security (passwords, error lockout, palm geometry, automatic shutoff, time lock, call back), data communications controls (cryptographic transmission of data, scramblers, dial-back-devices), and management practices that may be…

Discusses the problems faced by executives who are suddenly confronted with a computer in their office. Suggests reasons for resistance and methods for overcoming it. Indicates that business teachers must prepare students for the electronic office. (JOW)

The widespread use of automated office systems is inevitable. Teachers can help future employees make a smooth transition from the nonautomated to the automated office. (JOW)

Examines the beginnings of office automation from the development of the typewriter; describes the productivity crisis in American offices; and looks at the future of the changing office environment. (SK)

A study examined the attitudes of employers from 10 firms in northwest Arkansas toward changing from a traditional office to an electronic one. Even though the 10 employers represented 7 different categories of industry (construction, manufacturing, transportation and public utilities, wholesale and retail trade, finance and real estate, services,…

Discusses how technology is changing the nature of office work by introducing new information-processing machines, programs for operating them, and communications systems for interconnecting them. Includes diagrams of preindustrial, industrial, and information-age offices. (Author/JN)

Reviews selected facets of office automation, including office systems, the technical base, software, services, system growth, and effects on office personnel. (JN)

Mechanization is the way of life for the office of the future and it is rapidly approaching, according to the author. She discusses the business and office skills necessary for this future office and approaches that business teachers might take to keep their curricula current with business trends. (MF)

Several factors must be considered when implementing office automation. Included among these are whether or not to automate at all, the effects of automation on employees, requirements imposed by automation on the physical environment, effects of automation on the total organization, and effects on clientele. The reasons behind the success or…

This publication contains six position papers presented by guest businessmen during the fourth annual Business Education Invitational Forum on the topic of implications of current change and technology in the environment in the office of the future. The article, The Office in the 1970's, describes the office as it is and as it is evolving, defines…

Traces how technological changes affect the architecture of the workplace. Traces these effects from the industrial revolution up through the computer revolution. Offers suggested designs for the computerized office of today and tomorrow. (JM)

Proceedings of a conference on the present and future uses of computer techniques in the air conditioning field. The recommendation of this report is, for the most part, negative insofar as it applies to the use of computers for design by the small office. However, there should be an awareness of their usefulness in controlling the environmental…

The author states that a systems approach to office work consists of combinations of people, processes, and equipment in subsystems of communication, processing, and storage. To complement advanced office technology, workers need education in such competencies as reprography, typewriting, records management, and human relations. (MF)

A study sought to determine how features of the office of the future are related to career paths of office workers. Personal interviews were used to obtain data from 178 administrative, supervisory, and clerical persons employed by sixteen insurance companies located in the Columbus, Ohio, metropolitan area. Employees responded to questions…