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Reuters: How IT will change when Gen Y runs the show
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on September 2nd, 2010
Reuters: How IT will change when Gen Y runs the show
Kristine Harper thinks she and her millennial colleagues will run things better when they’re in charge.”Our generation will be a little bit more fun, encouraging, flexible, positive. There’ll be fewer meetings, more networking, more teams,” she says.
Charlotte Observer: Envisioning what future workplaces could look like
Posted by admin in office space, technology, workplace on August 31st, 2010
Charlotte Observer: Envisioning what future workplaces could look like
What do workplaces look like in the future? A string of cubicles in an office skyscraper? Or a connected web of workers operating remotely using laptops and cell phones and meeting in a virtual 3-D world?
Wall Street Journal: The End of Management
Wall Street Journal: The End of Management
Can the 20th-century corporation evolve into this new, 21st-century organization? It won’t be easy. The “innovator’s dilemma” applies to management, as well as technology. But the time has come to find out. The old methods won’t last much longer.
Businessweek: Seven Paths to Discipline for Remote Workers
Posted by admin in employees, home office, remote work on August 24th, 2010
Businessweek: Seven Paths to Discipline for Remote Workers
We all know that successful remote work takes more than a good playlist. It requires discipline, the kind that keeps you at your desk when no one will know if you’re not there. The kind of discipline that keeps the television off and your brain switched on…
Businessweek: Seven Paths to Discipline for Remote Workers
Posted by admin in employees, home office, remote work on August 24th, 2010
Businessweek: Seven Paths to Discipline for Remote Workers
We all know that successful remote work takes more than a good playlist. It requires discipline, the kind that keeps you at your desk when no one will know if you’re not there. The kind of discipline that keeps the television off and your brain switched on…
Inc.: Is the PC Era Coming to an End?
Posted by admin in cloud computing, professional opinion, technology on August 19th, 2010
Inc.: Is the PC Era Coming to an End?
The PC Era is all but over. Oh, there will always be PC’s, just as there are still radios. But the so-called “Golden Age of Radio” ended about 60 years ago. Who will and what will lose clout in the coming era?
Chicago Tribune: A shift toward working from home
Posted by admin in home office, telework, workshifting on August 17th, 2010
Chicago Tribune: A shift toward working from home
Nationwide, a push to get more workers telecommuting could save more than $650 billion a year from cost reductions associated with less office space and utilities, gasoline and transportation, traffic-related injuries, absenteeism and worker turnover, day care, meals, clothing and commuting time as well as increased productivity…
St. Louis Today: New ‘co-working’ space hopes to ride freelance trend
Posted by admin in co-working, freelance on August 12th, 2010
St. Louis Today: New ‘co-working’ space hopes to ride freelance trend
Combine a glut of empty office space with a growing “freelance economy” and what do you get? Maybe you get a new way of thinking about what it means to go to the office. That’s the thinking behind St. Louis Coworking, a new home for freelancers, one-person shops and the self-employed…
Work Shifting: Chasing Mobility
Posted by admin in mobile professionals, workshifting on August 10th, 2010
Work Shifting: Chasing Mobility
I’ve been workshifting for a long time. I started out with pens and paper and dimes for the payphone – long before e-mail was ordinary and mobile phones were ubiquitous. I embraced technology at every step, and my business life is littered with the detritus of obsolete objects to prove it.
Web Worker Daily: Opportunities in the Web Work Revolution
Web Worker Daily: Opportunities in the Web Work Revolution
The web work revolution is changing the way people are employed and how employees think about employers: An increasing number of people are working as freelancers, and employees are switching jobs far more rapidly than they have in the past. How, then, do we migrate the established “rules of work” to this new scenario?