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….
Tag: information and communications technology
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
State of California must overcome ingrained organizational culture, IT challenges to successfully navigate transition to virtual work
Two factors have accelerated the State of California’s more than three decades in the making shift to virtual work: The…