First, many people actually enjoy the sense of belonging and the rituals of office life.
One manager she worked with took breaks to write humorous haiku poems about office life.
One of the biggest changes of 21st-century office life is the ubiquity of gadgets like smartphones and iPods.
Other gear takes the familiar tools of office life to the next level.
E-mail disclaimers are one of the minor nuisances of modern office life, along with fire drills, annual appraisals and colleagues who keep sneezing loudly.
Office life in Beijing has changed dramatically since the IBM acquisition.
As Big Data becomes a fixture of office life, companies are turning to tracking devices to gather real-time information on how teams of employees work and interact.
The gatherings, along with running March Madness betting pools and other activities, help reclaim some of the lost camaraderie of office life, says co-founder Lance Somerfeld of Manhattan.
But it could also lead to a tricky transition period as millions of us adapt to a new world in which almost every aspect of office life can be lugged around in our laptops.
They are the only members of any branch that hold their office for life.
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And Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Istanbul's Islamist mayor, is in the process of being banned from political office for life for quoting a lively piece of poetry.
Lord Drayson, former science minister who set up the Office for Life Sciences, told the Today programme's Evan Davis that "we need to recognize that it is not possible to develop new medicines without doing research".
The New Jersey Supreme Court may cease even to pretend to be bound by the federal and state constitutions, as well as the written law, and issue a dictate that too many pols would eagerly embrace: Dispense with elections altogether, and appoint yourselves to office for life.
The collapse of the twin towers jolted both Mr Bush and his office back into life.
Eight out of 10 said they would still enjoy going into the office for the social life.
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Fuentes wears bright red shirts, mimicking Chavez's trademark color of choice, calls himself a proud foot soldier in Chavez's Bolivarian Revolution and in his private office there is a life-size photo of the Venezuelan leader.
In 1998 Mr Erdogan was banned from office and politics for life, and served four months in prison in 1999 for inciting a religious rebellion by publicly reciting a poem taught in state schools (and written by a poet Ataturk admired).
Technology has allowed work to follow us home and our home life to the office.
Then, at the door, she spotted Ready Freddy, brought to life by attendance office employee William Fulton, and all was forgotten.
Give employees rewards of experiences (dinner for two, an activity for kids) that show you care about their life outside the office.
These days Mr Fischer leads a double life: the office in the morning, then a brisk stroll across the Charles Bridge to the Senate in the afternoon.
Everyone knows how distracting life at the office has become.
Thus, the choice Americans will have to make this Fall is pretty straightforward: Accept the claimed "strength" of a man who has spent his entire public life seeking higher office on a platform of accommodation of our adversaries and opposition to the policies and programs aimed at defeating and destroying them.
These themes run right through many aspects of contemporary life: school, office, the home.
They receive their commissions in lieu of overtime and enjoy a largely autonomous work-life outside of an office.
And I would like to thank President Obama for the knowledge he has of my life before I took office.
More recently, he was barred for life from running for office.
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