Allowing your son or daughter to see where you work can open their eyes to life outside the classroom, and let your colleagues see a different side to you

If you're a parent you may consider your place of work the one remaining child-free zone – a little oasis away from family life where you can enjoy some adult conversation. But one day a year it may be worth throwing all that out of the window and taking your...

Survey finds increase in number of hours public spends watching TV, playing video games and using the internet

People are watching more television, reading more news, playing more video games, spending more time updating their social networking profiles and using...

Survey finds increase in number of hours public spends watching TV, playing video games and using the internet

People are watching more television, reading more news, playing more video games, spending more time updating their social networking profiles and using...

Paper use is falling, but only 1% a year

Imagine a world where you can "call up documents from files on the screen, or by pressing a button", or get "mail or any messages" from a "TV-display terminal with keyboard".

These were the thoughts – in 1975 – of George E Pake, the head of Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center, when quizzed by BusinessWeek on what the office of the future would look like. Predicting "a revolution in the office over the...