[custom_adv] An office is generally a room or other area where an organization's employees perform administrative work in order to support and realize objects and goals of the organization. [custom_adv] The word "office" may also denote a position within an organization with specific duties attached to it (see officer, office-holder, official); the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one's duty. [custom_adv] When used as an adjective, the term "office" may refer to business-related tasks. In law, a company or organization has offices in any place where it has an official presence, even if that presence consists of (for example) a storage silo rather than an establishment with desk-and-chair. [custom_adv] A workplace is a location where someone works for his or her employer, a place of employment. Such a place can range from a home office to a large office building or factory. [custom_adv] For industrialized societies, the workplace is one of the most important social spaces other than the home, constituting "a central concept for several entities: the worker and his/her family, the employing organization, the customers of the organization, and the society as a whole". [custom_adv] The development of new communication technologies have led to the development of the virtual workplace, a workplace that is not located in any one physical space. [custom_adv] A job, or occupation, is a person's role in society. More specifically, a job is an activity, often regular and often performed in exchange for payment ("for a living"). [custom_adv] Many people have multiple jobs (e.g., parent, homemaker, and employee). A person can begin a job by becoming an employee, volunteering, starting a business, or becoming a parent. The duration of a job may range from temporary (e.g., hourly odd jobs) to a lifetime (e.g., judges). [custom_adv] An activity that requires a person's mental or physical effort is work (as in "a day's work"). If a person is trained for a certain type of job, they may have a profession. [custom_adv] Typically, a job would be a subset of someone's career. The two may differ in that one usually retires from their career, versus resignation or termination from a job. [custom_adv] An office is generally a room or other area where an organization's employees perform administrative work in order to support and realize objects and goals of the organization. [custom_adv] For industrialized societies, the workplace is one of the most important social spaces other than the home, constituting "a central concept for several entities: the worker and his/her family, the employing organization, the customers of the organization, and the society as a whole".
