# office

> room where people perform office work

**Wikidata**: [Q182060](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182060)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/office

## Summary
An **office** is a **room where people perform office work**. It is commonly used by **office workers** and is classified as a type of **room** and **workplace**.

## Key Facts
- An **office** is defined as a **room where people perform office work**.
- **Use:** office work.
- **Used by:** office worker.
- **Classification:** an office is a **subclass of room**, **workplace** (qualified with **white-collar worker**), and **facility**.
- **Aliases include:** offices, commercial office, commercial offices, office space, office, 執務空間, 事務局, 職場, 事務室, 勤務先.
- **Wikidata description:** “room where people perform office work.”
- **Wikipedia title:** *Office*.
- **Commons category:** *Offices*.
- **Sitelink count:** 77.

## FAQs
### Q: What is an office?
A: An office is a room where people perform office work. It is commonly used by office workers and is categorized as a room and workplace.

### Q: Is an office a room or a building?
A: In this entry, an office is classified as a **room**. It is also treated as a kind of **workplace** and **facility**.

### Q: Who typically uses an office?
A: Offices are used by **office workers**. The workplace classification is associated with **white-collar worker** (as a qualifier).

### Q: What are other names for an office?
A: Common aliases include **office space**, **commercial office**, and **offices**, along with multilingual labels such as **執務空間**, **事務局**, **職場**, **事務室**, and **勤務先**.

## Why It Matters
An office matters because it names a core type of workplace environment: a room specifically used for office work. As a concept, it helps distinguish office work settings from other kinds of rooms and facilities, supporting clearer communication in organizational, architectural, and administrative contexts. The classification of “office” as both a room and a workplace (with an explicit association to white-collar work) makes it useful for knowledge organization systems, libraries, and databases that need consistent categories and cross-references. It also supports interoperability across identifiers and vocabularies (for example, library authority IDs and thesaurus entries), enabling systems to connect information about offices across languages and datasets. In practical terms, the concept of an office provides a standard way to describe where office workers perform their work, which is foundational for describing institutions, facilities, and work arrangements.

## Notable For
- Defined specifically as a **room** used for **office work** (not merely a general workplace).
- Classified across multiple conceptual layers: **room**, **workplace**, and **facility**.
- Has extensive cross-referencing identifiers across knowledge systems (e.g., **GND**, **Freebase**, **WordNet**).
- Maintains broad multilingual and synonym coverage via aliases (including non-Latin scripts).
- Has a dedicated Wikimedia organizational structure (e.g., **Commons category: Offices**, **Category:Offices**).

## Body
### Definition
- **Office:** a **room where people perform office work**.
- **Primary use:** office work.
- **Typical user:** office worker.

### Classification and Relationships
- **Instance of:** type.
- **Subclass of:**
  - **room**
  - **workplace** (qualifier: **white-collar worker**)
  - **facility**
- **Different from:** a separate entity identified as **Q11255** (as noted in the provided properties).

### Names, Aliases, and Multilingual Labels
- English aliases include:
  - **office**, **offices**
  - **commercial office**, **commercial offices**
  - **office space**
- Additional aliases provided:
  - **執務空間**, **事務局**, **職場**, **事務室**, **勤務先**

### External Identifiers and Knowledge-System Links
- **GND ID:** 4008807-8
- **HDS ID:** 016214
- **PSH ID:** 220
- **YSO ID:** 3101 (exact terms listed: “toimistot”, “kontor”, “offices”)
- **EuroVoc ID:** c_4b5a18f8
- **Freebase ID:** /m/021sj1
- **WordNet 3.1 synset:** 03847186-n
- **Library of Congress authority ID:** sh85094201
- **Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID:** topic/office-business

### Wikimedia and Media References
- **Wikipedia title:** *Office*
- **Commons category:** *Offices*
- **Topic’s main category:** Category:Offices
- **Example images (Wikimedia Commons file paths):**
  - Photograph_of_the_Division_of_Classification_and_Cataloging_(36341206050).jpg
  - Posse_Senadores_2019_(33076008488).jpg
  - Procuratiehouderskamer_boekhouders_aan_het_werk,_Bestanddeelnr_189-0018.jpg

### Related Entities (Examples)
The provided related items include specific offices and headquarters-type entities, such as:
- **United Nations Office at Nairobi** — United Nations Office in Nairobi, Kenya (country: Kenya).
- **Pakistan House** — headquarters of a political party (country: Pakistan).
- Multiple **Kantor Camat** entities — district offices in West Sumatra, Indonesia (e.g., Ampek Koto, Baso, Lubuk Basung, Tanjung Raya, and others).

## Schema Markup
```json
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Thing",
  "name": "office",
  "description": "A room where people perform office work.",
  "sameAs": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office"
  ],
  "additionalType": "room"
}

## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. BBC Things
3. YSO-Wikidata mapping project
4. National Library of Israel
5. [OFFICE latest news & coverage](https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/topic/office)