Healthy Office Chair (19th Century): Frank Lloyd Wright is considered to be the first person to have designed the world’s first ergonomic office chair in 1904, which included a seat height-adjustment mechanism https://www.haiken.com/insights/the-evolution-of-the-office-chair Continue reading

The evolution of office furniture saw the creation of wooden pieces with intricate designs. Charles Darwin is believed to be one of the first to invent the office chair by adding wheels to his armchair for better mobility around the 1840s Continue reading

Action Office (1964): While working for the furniture design company Herman Miller, American inventor Robert Propst launched Action Office, which was a flexible combination of tables, desks, and walls, designed to set workers free1. Continue reading

East India Company (18th Century): The East India Company, founded in 1600, had to manage an empire remotely in the 18th century. This required a bureaucracy to process information and make decisions about events thousands of miles away, leading to the use of office space at East India House on Leadenhall Street1 Continue reading

 The Old Admiralty Office (1726): Believed to be the first purpose-built office, The Old Admiralty Office opened in London in 1726. It was designed by Thomas Ripley and has housed several famous figures throughout history Continue reading

Office Trivia: The first workspace can be traced back to the 15th century when medieval monks created the “Scriptorium,” a cubicle-esque desk designed for copying manuscripts. https://www.knightfrank.co.uk/office-space/insights/culture-and-space/a-history-of-the-office/ True? @KnightFrankKE Continue reading

Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar: Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled from 605 BC to c. 562 BC, gave incentives to cloth weavers for production. Weavers were paid in food, and the more cloth they produced, the more food they were given Continue reading

Ancient Mesopotamia: Workers in ancient Mesopotamia were often paid by the basket for picking olives, which is an early example of performance-based pay1 Continue reading