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.

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?

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.

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…

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…

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?

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…

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…

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.

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?