A corner office is an office

Office

An office is generally a room or other area in which people work, but may also denote a position within an organization with specific duties attached to it ; the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one's duty. When used as an adjective, the...

 that is located in the corner of a building. Corner offices are considered desirable because they have windows on two exterior walls, as opposed to a typical office with only one window or none at all. (Note that offices occupying a corner of a building, but without windows, are not considered "corner offices.") As corner offices are typically given to the most senior executives, the term primarily refers to top management positions, such as the chief executive officer

Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...

 (CEO), chief financial officer

Chief financial officer

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 (CFO), chief operating officer

Chief operating officer

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 (COO), chief marketing officer

Chief marketing officer

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 (CMO), chief information officer

Chief information officer

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 (CIO), General counsel

General Counsel

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 (GC) and the director of human resources

Human resources

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. In organizations which do not use this corporate hierarchy, such as law firms and political parties, the corner office generally refers to the most senior partners or officials who are involved with corporate governance

Corporate governance

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Uses

• CNBC
  CNBC
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  's show Kudlow & Company
  Kudlow & Company
  The Kudlow Report is a news television program about business and politics hosted by Lawrence Kudlow, that airs on the CNBC television channel at 7pm ET. The show began airing on January 26, 2009. It is a successor to Kudlow & Company, which aired from 2005 until October 2008...
  
   has a recurring segment entitled "The Corner Office," in which various corporate executives are profiled.
• The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog runs a series titled "Associate Advice from the Corner Office" where top executives in legal firms give tips to recent graduates.
• American Public Media
  American Public Media
  American Public Media is the second largest producer of public radio programs in the United States of America after NPR. Its non-profit parent, American Public Media Group, also owns and operates radio stations in Minnesota, California, and Florida. Its station brands are Minnesota Public Radio,...
  
  's Marketplace
  Marketplace (radio program)
  Marketplace is a radio program that focuses on business, the economy, and events that influence them. Hosted by Kai Ryssdal, the show is produced and distributed by American Public Media, in association with the University of Southern California...
  
   radio program has a recurring segment, Conversations from the Corner Office, which interviews CEOs from companies in various sectors.
• Lois Frankel has written a book titled Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office in which she advises women to be assertive in order to break the glass ceiling
  Glass ceiling
  In economics, the term glass ceiling refers to "the unseen, yet unbreachable barrier that keeps minorities and women from rising to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder, regardless of their qualifications or achievements." Initially, the metaphor applied to barriers in the careers of women but...
  
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• Richard Conniff
  Richard Conniff
  Richard Conniff is an American non-fiction writer, specializing in behavior on two, four, six, and eight legs. He has collected tarantulas in the Peruvian Amazon, tracked leopards with Kung San hunters in the Namibian desert, climbed the Mountains of the Moon in western Uganda, and trekked through...
  
   has written a book titled Ape in the Corner Office in which he applies theories from evolutionary biology and sociobiology
  Sociobiology
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   to concepts of management in workplaces.
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