ow that office life as we knew it seems to be consigned to history, we can feel nostalgic (or at least mildly so) about its historical heyday – which is surely the mid-twentieth century. The age of the clerks, toiling at their ledgers with their copying quills, had gone and the office was brighter, airier, at the forefront of new technologies and freedoms. Women and men worked together (though still mostly – not always – at different levels in the hierarchy); there was the
