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     When we see or hear the word "business", however we think first of all not of different shops, factories or mines, but of offices. Modern business is done chiefly there, and a day of a modern businessman is a day spent at an office.That is probably why business people pay so much attention to the way their officeslook like.
     I am sure you can easily imagine this place.Usually it is situated in a large or not very large well-planned building somewherein the centre or in a prestige district of the city. How large the office itselfis depends on the dimensions of the firm, which the businessman owns. But inany case it should be light and clean and have not necessary very chic and expensivebut comfortable furniture of good quality. One more very importantthing is the air. It should always be fresh and neither hot nor cold. For this purposea lot of modern businessmen use various types of air-conditioners.
     Office work usually means different forms of communication. A businessmanoften needs to speak to other people and he can do this by using the telephone,which is an important part of the communications system. The head of a largefirm usually has two telephones on his desk. One is a usual telephone, whichconnects the businessman with other people in the town and in other countries.But the other one is connected to a private internal system and this makes it possiblefor members of the staff in different parts of the same building to talk toone another without leaving their rooms.
     A businessman also communicates by writing. But he doesn't write his lettershimself, he dictates them to his secretary, usually a woman, who types them on atypewriter or with the help of a computer, and then takes them to be signed.After that she posts all the letters or (which is more common nowadays) sendsthem using fax. Thus we can say for sure that different technical means andequipment like personal computer, fax, xerox, printer occupy a considerable partof the office interior.And of course speaking about offices of any kind we shouldn't forget the person,who actually organizes the work there, who arranges meetings, makes appointments,cancels them, does most of the paper-work and answers telephone callsthus helping her boss in his business.