Back office

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A  'back office ' is a part of most corporations where tasks dedicated to running the company itself take place. Examples of back-office tasks include Information technology departments that keep the phones and computers running, accounting, and human resources. In banking the back office is the heavyweight IT processing systems that handle position keeping, clearance, and settlement. Sometimes back offices may be somewhere other than the main headquarters of a company. Much of the time they are in suburban areas with cheaper rent, or these functions are outsourced to contractors in other countries. The term comes from the building layout of early companies where the front office would contain the sales and other customer-facing staff and the back office would be those manufacturing or developing the products or involved in administration but without being seen by customers.

See also

• Front office
• Virtual office
  
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