The economics of office presence
The virtualization and decentralization of knowledge work has greatly reduced the need for office attendance. But it nevertheless holds value…
Author: Frederick Pilot
Buildings and bureaus: RTO isn’t only about trust and control
Return to office (RTO) isn’t only about control or trust or workplaces. It’s more fundamental. It’s essentially about organizational identity….
Redefining office space use in the post CCO era
Return to office (RTO) policies have created controversy, framed as a set to between executive leadership wanting staff to work…
No assembly required
As information and communications technology tools decentralize and virtualize knowledge work, it challenges knowledge organizations to reconceptualize working. In the pre information economy industrial age, work and education involved assembling: in schools, factories and offices.
Now the office is optional.
Future shock and past snapback
Before advances in information and communications technologies over the past four decades, knowledge work required industrial scale centralized commuter offices…
The terms “flex” “hybrid” and “remote” represent evolution of knowledge work
These terms describe the evolution of knowledge work beyond the time and space confines of the 8-5 Monday through Friday…
From workplace to gathering place
The return to office debate reflects a transition period away from when the tools to process, document and communicate information…
An emerging — and dubious — tradeoff: Making CCOs destinations worth the drive.
In his 1976 book, The Telecommunications-Transportation Tradeoff, Jack Nilles posited that telecommunications had evolved to the point it could substitute…
It’s now longer about whether to CCO or not. New model of knowledge work needed.
When knowledge workers worked in centralized offices, they commuted to them because that’s where the tools of their trade were….
Distance isn’t quite dead. It’s being defined and justified. And it remains a burden.
In her book The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Is Changing our Lives, (Rev. 2001) Frances Cairncross posited…