Workshop vs. Office — What's the Difference?

Beginning with the Industrial Revolution era, a workshop may be a room, rooms or building which provides both the area and tools (or machinery) that may be required for the manufacture or repair of manufactured goods. Workshops were the only places of production until the advent of industrialization and the development of larger factories.

An office is generally a building, room or other area where an organization's employees perform administrative work in order to support and realize objects and goals of the organization. The word "office" may also denote a position within an organization with specific duties attached to it (see officer, office-holder, official); the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one's duty.

A room, area, or small establishment where manual or light industrial work is done.

The administrative personnel, executives, or staff working in such a place

An educational seminar or series of meetings emphasizing interaction and exchange of information among a usually small number of participants

A subdivision of a governmental department

To create or revise (a drama or literary work) based on suggestions or criticism from a group of collaborators.

A place in which business, clerical, or professional activities are conducted.

A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work.

A major executive division of a government

A brief, intensive course of education for a small group, emphasizing interaction and practical problem solving.

A position of authority, duty, or trust given to a person, as in a government or corporation

An academic conference.

Public position

(transitive) To help a playwright revise a draft of (a play) by rehearsing it with actors and critiquing the results.

A duty or function assigned to or assumed by someone

(transitive) To work on or revise something, especially collaboratively, in a workshop.

Often offices A service or beneficial act done for another

To improve through collaboration.

The canonical hours.

A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.

A prayer service in the Anglican Church, such as Morning or Evening Prayer.

Small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done

A ceremony, rite, or service for a special purpose, especially the Office of the Dead.

A brief intensive course for a small group; emphasizes problem solving

Offices Chiefly British The parts of a house, such as the laundry and kitchen, in which servants carry out household work.

A ceremonial duty or service, particularly:

The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.

Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin.

A daily service without the eucharist.

The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons.

Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service.

Last rites.

Mass, the introit sung at its beginning.

A position of responsibility.

Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.

A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; moral duty.

Function: anything typically done by or expected of something.

A service, a kindness.

Inside information.

A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly:

A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping.

A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public.

A room, set of rooms, or building used for consultation and diagnosis, but not surgery or other major procedures.

The staff of such places.

The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly:

A ministry or other department of government.

Short for Holy Office: the court of final appeal in cases of heresy.

A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business.

The parts of a house or estate devoted to manual work and storage, as the kitchen, scullery, laundry, stables, etc., particularly a house or estate's facilities for urination and defecation: outhouses or lavatories.

Clipping of inquest of office: an inquest undertaken on occasions when the Crown claimed the right of possession to land or property.

A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.

A hangout: a place where one is normally found.

A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit.

A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.

An official or group of officials; a personification of officeholders.

A bodily function, urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.

The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.

To provide (someone) with an office.

(intransitive) To have an office.

That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the relations of man to man; as, kind offices, pious offices.

A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose; a position of trust or authority; as, an executive or judical office; a municipal office.

A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself; as, the office of a priest under the old dispensation, and that of the apostles in the new.

That which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done, by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to perform; a function; - answering to duty in intelligent beings.

The place where any kind of business or service for others is transacted; a building, suite of rooms, or room in which public officers or workers in any organization transact business; as, the register's office; a lawyer's office; the doctor's office; the Mayor's office.

The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the office.

The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc.

Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass; any prescribed religious service.

To perform, as the duties of an office; to discharge.

Place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed;

An administrative unit of government;

The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group;

(of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power;

Professional or clerical workers in an office;

A religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities;

A job in an organization;