typing pools
Shared stenography staff
A typing pool was a group of typists, usually women, who worked in a centralized office handling typing tasks for an organization.
Before personal computers, executives dictated correspondence or submitted handwritten drafts, which the pool transcribed.
She started in the typing pool before becoming an executive secretary.
The term evokes mid-twentieth-century office culture.
- word processingDigital text manipulation
- typewriterMechanical printing keyboard
- mimeographStencil-based copying device
- steno padTop-bound dictation notebook
- carbon copiesIdentical reproductions of documents
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- dying industriesprint newspapers, landlines, payphones, cassette tapes, VCRs
typing poolspersonal assistant
Hired organizational helper
executive secretary · private secretary · administrative assistant · self-service · solo practitioner
typing poolsdesktop publishing
Computer-based document creation
speech-to-text · personal computers · Google Docs · Microsoft Word
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