RTO mandates part of push-pull struggle to redefine employment amid ICT advances
This isn’t the typical recessionary business cycle downsizing: layoffs either directly — or indirectly via attrition as described here. It’s…
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Steve Jobs’ “bicycle for our minds” spurred rethinking of how knowledge work is done. Now knowledge work itself on threshold of redefinition.
There has been considerable discussion in both news and social media over tensions within knowledge organizations over presence in commute-in…
At its core, return to office debate about redefining knowledge work
Personal computing and communication devices and the Internet have decentralized knowledge work and made the daily trip to centralized commuter…
Exurban migration demands fiber delivered advanced telecom infrastructure, EVs
Growth on the urban periphery, while a boon for housing affordability, comes with environmental costs, chewing up farmland and perpetuating…
Leased/owned office space downsizing likely to accelerate
Knowledge work is currently in an awkward transition out of centralized commuter offices (CCOs) and dispersed to home offices. Many…
Despite Remote Work, Rush Hour Returned – Bloomberg
Source: Despite Remote Work, Rush Hour Returned – Bloomberg The upshot of this piece is the potential bifurcation of knowledge…
A great post pandemic sorting among knowledge workers and organizations at hand.
More than a year into America’s great work-from-home experiment, many companies have hailed it largely as a success. So why…
Coronavirus: Sorry, but Working From Home is Overrated – The New York Times
Home-cooked lunches and no commuting while we deal with coronavirus can’t compensate for what’s lost in creativity. Source: Coronavirus: Sorry,…
Knowledge economy should evolve beyond Industrial Age Ver. 2.0
As much of the economy becomes more knowledge-based it continues to retain a key feature of the Industrial Age: geographic…
Bay Area commuters back taxes to pay to improve road, transit – SFGate
Bay Area residents have grown so exasperated by worsening traffic and the paucity of government money to make things better…