The economic activity of a society consists of activities related to the production and consumption of goods and services. Since earliest times, the primary function of organized society has been economic in nature.
The Pentagon is a large office building, with about 6,500,000 sq ft (600,000 m 2), of which 3,700,000 sq ft (340,000 m 2) are used as offices. Approximately 23,000 military and civilian employees and about 3,000 non-defense support personnel work in the Pentagon. It has five sides, five floors above ground, two basement levels, and five ring corridors per floor with a total of 17.5 mi (28.2 km) of corridors.
He said he expects this to significantly reduce - but not eliminate civilian furloughs. Hagel had made it clear earlier in the past week that Pentagon lawyers were trying to determine ways for some of the Defense Department's 400,000 furloughed civilians to get back to work. Hagel acknowledged the blow to morale of the government shutdown.