Sitting here in my cubicle, browsing Reddit between formatting spreadsheets, I can't help but wonder to what magnitude the computer has reshaped the office setting. Besides outlook contacts replacing the Rolodex and 'alt-tab' replacing the magazine shoved under the leather desk pad; what other major changes to the work place can be attributed to modern computing practices that to the contemporary corporate drone would seem common place? Additionally, are there any -corporate buzzwords' that existed prior to computers that are no longer in use, or perhaps any that have been re-purposed?
Cubicles certainly existed before desktop computers were ubiquitous. There's also a deep well of obsolete office practices and technology. Have you ever heard of a Typing Pool? Or a Dict-a-phone? Or shorthand?
Some were also social changes, rather than technological: Separate "Help Wanted Male" and "Help Wanted Female" adds, or the cliché about the executive chasing his secretary around the desk. Or ashtrays everywhere.