# office (workplace)

a room where people do work

- Computed level: L8 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: common  ·  Arena: vocab.en

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [rooms](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-rooms.space), [people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-people.social), [work](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-work.effort)

**Through:** people together do work in the room

**Novel properties:**
- designated workspace
- business identity
- shared equipment

## Examples
- The International Space Station's Columbus module hosts astronauts conducting microgravity experiments for eight-hour shifts. *(engineering)*
- Employees at the New York Times newsroom in Manhattan produce daily editions using digital editing suites and editorial workflows. *(institutions)*
- Software developers at GitHub Inc. collaborate in a San Francisco open-plan office to maintain and update code repositories. *(computing)*

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-office.workplace.json*  
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