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On the decentralization of knowledge work in the 21st century

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Decentralized Knowledge Work: Transforming Organizational Management, Culture
The economics of office presence
Buildings and bureaus: RTO isn’t only about trust and control
Redefining office space use in the post CCO era
No assembly required
Future shock and past snapback
The terms “flex” “hybrid” and “remote” represent evolution of knowledge work
From workplace to gathering place
An emerging — and dubious — tradeoff: Making CCOs destinations worth the drive. An emerging — and dubious — tradeoff: Making CCOs destinations worth the drive.
It’s now longer about whether to CCO or not. New model of knowledge work needed.
Distance isn’t quite dead. It’s being defined and justified. And it remains a burden.
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    • The Decentralization of Knowledge Work: How It Helps Organizations Address 3 Key Challenges

Author: Frederick Pilot

Looking back and forward from late 1989: The Home Office

An article I penned on the emerging trend of telecommuting aka “home working” as seen in late 1989 in early…

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by Frederick Pilot
September 18, 2022

Despite Remote Work, Rush Hour Returned – Bloomberg

Source: Despite Remote Work, Rush Hour Returned – Bloomberg The upshot of this piece is the potential bifurcation of knowledge…

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by Frederick Pilot
August 29, 2021

The Pandemic Blew Up the American Office — For Better and Worse | Stanford Graduate School of Business

Rather than letting individual employees simply choose when they will come into the office, companies should implement an organized approach,…

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by Frederick Pilot
June 17, 2021

Apple and Google want to force remote workers back into cubicles. That friction could lead to a job exodus

But who has to come back to work — and when and where — is proving fraught as millions of…

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by Frederick Pilot
June 9, 2021

A great post pandemic sorting among knowledge workers and organizations at hand.

More than a year into America’s great work-from-home experiment, many companies have hailed it largely as a success. So why…

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by Frederick Pilot
May 25, 2021

Washingtonian staff goes on strike after CEO Cathy Merrill’s op-ed about remote work – The Washington Post

In Thursday’s op-ed, Merrill wrote that she had discussed the downsides of remote work with fellow chief executives and estimated…

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by Frederick Pilot
May 8, 2021

Work from home still reigns as offices plan to reopen – Los Angeles Times

Human beings have not been fundamentally changed by the coronavirus, Dezzutti said, and will again seek one another’s company in…

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by Frederick Pilot
April 16, 2021

Rebalancing Irish residential settlement for information economy

Like other countries across Europe, the hollowing out of once vibrant villages and small towns has contributed to wider social…

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by Frederick Pilot
March 30, 2021

Pandemic hastens end of the centralized commuter office, heralds “Distributed Age.”

A year after the coronavirus sparked an extraordinary exodus of workers from office buildings, what had seemed like a short-term…

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March 29, 2021

Pandemic showed work can get done without centralized commuter offices

Work, too, has been transformed. Suddenly, hundreds of millions of people around the world had to figure out how to…

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by Frederick Pilot
March 22, 2021

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