Silicon Valley adjusting to distributed work model
Prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper sees significant but diminishing value in face-to-face work, and believes that as technology…
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Silicon Valley renders itself obsolete
Out of habit, inertia, or just a plain fear of change, many white-collar workplaces have avoided allowing employees to regularly…
Peter Thiel: ICT offers low cost, green solution to metro area transportation, housing challenges
Venture capitalist and PayPal founder Peter Thiel was recently interviewed on the Fox Business Network on the city of the…
Rethinking knowledge work
Bosses acknowledge that remote workers don’t suffer from productivity problems. Research has found telecommuters who can work outside normal office…
One Thing Silicon Valley Can’t Seem to Fix – The New York Times
The built environment of the Valley does not reflect the innovation that’s driving the region’s stratospheric growth; it looks instead…
The centralized commuter office as tech corporate edifice
It is not the only technology company erecting a shrine to itself. Apple’s employees have just begun moving into their…
The continuing commuting paradox of the S.F. Bay Area, stuck in the 20th Century
Eighty percent of jobs in the Bay Area are concentrated in suburban fringes with little access…
Plumbing the paradox of Silicon Valley: Where culture trumps ICT
The late management master Peter Drucker’s perhaps most quoted aphorism is “culture eats strategy for breakfast.” In California’s Silicon Valley,…
Silicon Valley — of all places — is suffering from future shock
Alvin Toffler, the recently deceased futurist who authored the bestselling book Future Shock, is credited with coining that term. As…
Facebook is considering opening a San Francisco office – Business Insider
Facebook is thinking about opening up an office in San Francisco, which would be a huge boon for employees who…