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How the needs of monks and empire builders helped mold the modern-day office

  • Written by Nicole Kay Peterson, Assistant Professor, Iowa State University
How the needs of monks and empire builders helped mold the modern-day officeThe East India House, 1928. From 'A History of Lloyd's,' by Charles Wright and C. Ernest Fayle. Macmillan and Company Limited, London, 1928P. hoto by The Print Collector/Getty Images

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