This chapter discusses the computerization of office work, which in many ways served as a focal point for the emergence of research about gender and technology in the 1980s. The focus on office automation allows us to explore topics that have been central to the development of feminist perspectives on work. The issues the chapter addresses include the nature of office work, invisible work and skill, the ‘gendering’ of office machines, and debates about skill – deskilling, upskilling, and the social construction of skill. Observational studies of office information also produced many valuable insights concerning technology, organization, and managerial decisions, with a focus on skill, learning, and the need for workplace design aiming to support office workers to appropriate the new technologies integrating them into their practices. The chapter positions workplace design with respect to several strong traditions of (re)designing jobs and the organization in which they are embedded that were developed in the 1970s and 1980s.