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…
Tag: centralized commuter offices
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….
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…
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….
Toffler’s second and third waves colliding in U.S. federal government
In his 1980 book The Third Wave, futurist Alvin Toffler depicted the long-term evolution of modern socio-economy as a series…
Knowledge organizations suffer “future shock”
In 1970, futurist Alvin Toffler coined term “future shock.” It occurs when the future arrives too quickly for people and…
The customer service model and government offices
The Trump administration’s offer this week to federal employees to either do their jobs in government offices or resign effective…