The 30,000-Foot View
By Joe McKendrick
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OfficeTeam recently issued a report on the "Office of the Future, circa 2020," predicting that it will be increasingly mobile and flexible as companies swiftly assemble the resources necessary to meet changing business needs.
Among the other findings in the survey of business and technology executives:
Looking nostalgically back to my work with the Administrative Management Society in the mid to late 1980s, we published a series of books and research studies on "The Office of the Future," which at that point meant the year 2000. We had a lot of hits and misses with that series.
Office of the Future Passed
We're seeing this already, across the job spectrum. More likely is a mix of telecommuting and on-site work.
Talk abouit hyper-connectitvity! Have you ever tried to work on a laptop while on the beach? The sun washes out the screen, and sand is everywhere.
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