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: decentralization of knowledge work
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…
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…
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…
Office presence controversy overlays larger question of how knowledge work managed, organized.
The controversy over attendance in centralized commute-in offices is currently centered around return to office (RTO) policies and when knowledge…
Virtualization of knowledge work could portend major downsizing trend
As knowledge work is virtualized and decentralized out of commute in offices with modern information and communication technologies, some organizations…
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…