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Both desk and chair 

 are mounted on 

 stools. The rela- 

 tion of the hands to 

 the keys remains 

 the same whether 

 the operator stands 

 or sits at her work 



hould be measured for the chair in whicn 

 he spends one-half of the time that 

 is awake during his entire 

 working life. 



If the worker can perform his 

 task standing as well as sit- 

 ting, his implements and 

 his work should be so posi- 

 tioned that he can relieve 

 his tense muscles by dis- 

 carding his chair. 

 Take the two accompany- 

 ing photographs as an ex- 

 ample of what Mr. Gilbreth 

 has done for the typist. Note 

 that both the typewriter desk 

 and the chair are mounted up- 

 on stools. The relation of the 

 hands to the keyboard remains 

 same whether the typist stands 

 or sits. When she is tired of sitting, 

 she has only to push aside the chair 

 and stool and to continue her work 

 standing. 



Here we have an example of the prop- 

 er distribution of necessary fatigue so 

 that the efficiency of the worker is in- 

 creased and her well-being improved. 



Work the Typewriter Standing and 

 Sitting — It Lessens Fatigue 



" r I ^HERE is no waste of any 

 J. kind in the world," says 

 Frank B. Gilbreth, the motion 

 study expert, "that equals the 

 waste from needless, ill-directed 

 and ineffective motions." One 

 result of this waste is fatigue. 

 Some fatigue is necessary and 

 some unnecessary. It is the 

 business of the efficiency en- 

 gineer to eliminate all unneces- 

 sary fatigue and to distribute 

 the necessary fatigue properly. 

 As the result of his study of 

 fatigue, Mr. Gilbreth has come 

 to the conclusion that few work 

 benches or tables are absolutely 

 satisfactory that do not permit 

 the worker to work equally well 

 standing or sitting. The worker 



Each Salesman Has His Own Tele- 

 phone in This Grocery 



A CHICAGO grocer increases his busi- 

 ness through telephone orders by 

 supplying each of his salesmen with a 

 special telephone on a table bearing the 

 salesman's name. Thus he avoids the 

 delays and confusion entailed by calling 

 the different salesmen to the telephone. 







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Each salesman has his own telephone and samples of the day's 

 "specials" before him on his desk so that there is no delay 



