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Last Rush Hour

On the decentralization of knowledge work in the 21st century

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Decentralized Knowledge Work: Transforming Organizational Management, Culture
The economics of office presence
Buildings and bureaus: RTO isn’t only about trust and control
Redefining office space use in the post CCO era
No assembly required
Future shock and past snapback
The terms “flex” “hybrid” and “remote” represent evolution of knowledge work
From workplace to gathering place
An emerging — and dubious — tradeoff: Making CCOs destinations worth the drive. An emerging — and dubious — tradeoff: Making CCOs destinations worth the drive.
It’s now longer about whether to CCO or not. New model of knowledge work needed.
Distance isn’t quite dead. It’s being defined and justified. And it remains a burden.
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    • The Decentralization of Knowledge Work: How It Helps Organizations Address 3 Key Challenges

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Pandemic hastens end of the centralized commuter office, heralds “Distributed Age.”

A year after the coronavirus sparked an extraordinary exodus of workers from office buildings, what had seemed like a short-term…

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by Frederick Pilot
March 29, 2021

Zillow survey suggests housing preferences could be upended in a post-pandemic America, leading to major questions about the future of dense metro cores

SEATTLE, May 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Where people choose to live has traditionally been tied to where they work, a…

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May 15, 2020

Technology will change where we live | TechCrunch

Finally, we have virtual reality coming in to totally upend things, perhaps rendering the commute obsolete altogether. There’s a reason…

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by Frederick Pilot
July 3, 2016

Look to the future now – it’s only just begun … Our predictions for the world of work in 2016 | Andy Lake | LinkedIn

Source: Look to the future now – it’s only just begun … Our predictions for the world of work in…

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by Frederick Pilot
December 23, 2015

What Telecommuting Looked Like in 1973 – CityLab

Nilles’s solution to these contemporary concerns was telecommuting, but not quite telecommuting as we know it today—after all, this was…

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December 4, 2015

Telecommuting USA: Stuck on the threshold of change | The Stack

Information and communications technologies have swept across the globe and their economic impact affects every community throughout the United States….

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September 22, 2015
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