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…
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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…
RTO mandates part of push-pull struggle to redefine employment amid ICT advances
This isn’t the typical recessionary business cycle downsizing: layoffs either directly — or indirectly via attrition as described here. It’s…
Steve Jobs’ “bicycle for our minds” and the current standoff between office centralists and virtualists
The microcomputer is the “bicycle for our minds” as it was termed by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The Internet the…
From Office to Output: Redefining Knowledge Work
In the first half of the 2020s, two developments emerged with major implications for knowledge work. The first is virtualization…
Hybrid work is not the future, says Meta’s former director of remote work | Fortune
Hybrid, Dean told Fortune in an interview, isn’t actually an even split between remote and in-office work, despite bosses who…
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…
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,…
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…
Pandemic forced organizational change, shattered Industrial Age boundaries defining knowledge work
Pandemic social distancing restrictions served as an organizational change intervention, forcing knowledge industry organizations to reassess their cultures and beliefs…