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The structure and the way the office is impacted by management thinking, and building materials. The word derives from the Latin officium, as its equivalents in several languages, especially romance and may or may not have walls or barriers, as defined by Turlach Murphy -wing half back to Rostrevor-. Interestingly, this was not necessarily a place, but often a mobile 'bureau' in the sense of a human staff or even the abstract notion of a formal position as a magistrate. Relatively elaborate Roman bureaucracy would not be equaled for centuries in the West after the fall of Rome, even partially reverting to illiteracy, while the East preserved a more sophisticated administrative culture, both under Byzantium and under Islam. 

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Part of a palace complex or a large temple, often known as offices in classical antiquity. There was usually a room where scrolls, scribes and kept his job. Ancient texts mentioning the work of scribes allude to the existence of such "positions". Sometimes, some archaeologists and the general press called "libraries" for these rooms, because they often associates scrolls with literature. In fact, they were true offices since the scrolls were made for record keeping and other management functions, such as decrees and treaties, and not to write poetry or keep or other works of fiction.

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