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Healthier working conditions and a great deal more leisure for clerical workers will be the result of the mechanisation of offices, according to Captain 0. Lyttelton, who gave an address in London recently. The problem of the century was to turn unemployment into leisure. "In my own company," said Captain Lyttelton, "all the complicated accountancy is going to be done by machinery. It is going to result in ,a saving of labour and to abolish for ever such an anomaly as overtime. In the summer, at least, when there is no more work to be done by 3 p.m., the staff will not be kept hanging round the office. I am going to see that when the machines are installed 10 to 15 per cent, of the staff are going to get off to play golf. Jf a machine can do what a man used to d 6, man can only maintain _ his place by using his spare time to increase his philosophy, his imagination, and his enterprise. At-present we regard anyone who does not work as lather disreputable, but before the end of this century the position will have to be reversed."
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 8, 10 July 1934, Page 3
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195MORE LEISURE Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 8, 10 July 1934, Page 3
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