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: knowledge work
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…
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…
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….
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…
ICT’s disruption of traditional employment relationship basis of RTO tensions
Advances in information and communications technology (ICT) over recent decades are fundamentally altering our perceptions of knowledge work: what it…
Organizational change: Shifting communication culture from real time spoken to async, writing-based.
The current tensions between knowledge organizations their thought worker staffs over office presence didn’t start with the social distancing public…
Virtualization and decentralization of knowledge work requires organizational communication, cultural transformation
The virtualization and decentralization of knowledge work requires knowledge workers to learn new ways of working. Primarily, learning to work…
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…