Definitions for Back Office
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1. back officenoun

   The IT and infrastructure support services for a company, separate from the public face of the business.

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1. Back office

   A back office in most corporations is where work that supports front office work is done. The front office is the "face" of the company and is all the resources of the company that are used to make sales and interact with customers and clients. The back office is all the resources of the company that are devoted to actually producing a product or service such as data entry, payroll, accounting and all the other labor that is not seen by customers, such as administration or logistics. Broadly speaking, back office work includes roles that affect the costs side of a business's trading statement and front office work includes roles that affect the income side of a business's trading statement. Although the operations of a back office are seldom prominent, they are a major contributor to a business's success. They can include functions such as accounting, planning, inventory management, supply-chain management, human resources and logistics.Back offices are often located somewhere other than company headquarters. Many are in areas and countries with cheaper rent and lower labor costs. Some office parks provide back offices for tenants whose front offices are in more expensive neighborhoods. Back office functions can be outsourced to consultants and contractors, including ones in other countries.

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1. Back office

   A back office is a part of most corporations where tasks dedicated to running the company itself take place. The term "back office" 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. Although the operations of a back office are seldom prominent, they are a major contributor to a business. Back offices may be located somewhere other than company headquarters. Many are in areas and countries with cheaper rent and lower labor costs. Some office parks such as MetroTech Center provide back offices for tenants whose front offices are in more expensive neighborhoods. Back office functions can be outsourced to consultants and contractors, including ones in other countries.

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   Daniel

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Back Office in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Back Office in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Back Office in a Sentence

1. Paul Kolbe:

   Many Western companies, supply chains and their back office systems were run out of Ukraine, so there's a great deal of talent there.

2. Lorne Fisher:

   I think a lot of people come into franchising and buy a single unit because they want a job, if they get one unit and x amount of income, they’re happy. But enterprise-building franchisees must have the skills to manage multiple units at once and also run a back office. You’re dealing with lots of moving parts, and it’s not for someone just getting into franchising to pay the bills. It requires a radically different mindset than single-unit franchisees’.

3. Ranndeep Chonker:

   The amount of breaches in the western world is maybe two times, or three times, of that in India. But India is the IT back office of the world. If that image suffers, of our capabilities of IT and ITES, there's a lot to lose.

4. Victoria Vetter:

   You need to make sure that there is an accessible AED that is not locked in the nurse’s office or in some back office.

5. Lakshheish M Patel:

   Keep writing complaints & yelling at the back office customer care of SBI Securities, but none will hear you and shamelessly pretend as if there is no problem with their web and mobile trading platform and complaining to SEBI against brokerage firm means wasting own time and headache

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Back_Office
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Office
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Back Office