Saw a bunch of filing cabinets in a retro office and got curious, When did filing cabinets become popular? Seems like a big shift in how offices worked.
Filing cabinets became widely popular in the 1920s.
After the vertical filing cabinet was invented in the 1890s, office efficiency improved significantly.
Following World War I, business expansion, larger organizations, and the rapid growth of paper records created a strong need for fast information retrieval, which led to the widespread adoption of filing cabinets in offices worldwide.
Additional note: By the 1930s, filing cabinets had become a standard feature of modern offices and helped drive the development of systematic records management, including classification and indexing systems.
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