back office, also called back office, are departments of a company that do services not directly to a client, usually the operational or managerial part and in the administrative area, are the services performed "by behind”.
Human resources and IT departments, for example, are back office, that is, they are important activities within the company, but that are not seen by all people, because these people are usually in places with little access, and focused on their activities. The back office often facilitates the service of companies, as it makes the employees not have many distractions and speeds up the service.
Back office in IT
In computing, backoffice is the core of a system, which is not seen by the end user. The back office has specific tasks, coordinates and manages activities of a system, website etc.
Any problem that may occur in the back office affects an entire system, service, website, because the files are often removed from it and the back office needs to be always up and running to support people.
