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…
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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.
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…
Knowledge workers saying no to the negative externality of commuting. Push back has implications for employment.
As has been widely reported, tensions have erupted over the past two years or so between knowledge workers and their…
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…
Thought work doesn’t require a centralized commute-in office
As knowledge or thought work as it’s called becomes virtual and is done outside of centralized commuter offices, some knowledge…
Tipping point: Virtualization and decentralization of knowledge work disrupting traditional concept of employment
Under the traditional concept of employment, an employer sets the conditions of employment: When, where and how the work is…
The knowledge work diaspora
Knowledge work — also referred to as thought work — aims to develop information into actionable plans and reach decisions…
Knowledge work has been slowly decentralizing for decades. But since COVID pandemic, it seems like just the past few years.
Many knowledge organizations have been blindsided by the rapid decentralization of knowledge work. It is disrupting the usual manner of…