It’s safe to say that the employee of tomorrow is not the same person as the employee of yesterday. The five trends shaping the future of work helped make sure of that fact. A few weeks ago I also shared another visual called The Evolution
If there’s one thing that we can all agree on it’s that the world of work is changing…quickly. The way we have been working over the past few years is NOT how are we are going to be working in the coming years. Perhaps one of
I don’t mean that work doesn’t exist and that we should all just drop what we are doing and quit our jobs, in fact, far from it. When I say “work as we know it is dead,” I’m specifically referring to the assumption that employees are
The internet of things is a big topic that consumers and companies alike are exploring. This idea of connecting billions of devices to each other and to ourselves is a fascinating thing to think about. Imagine your alarm clock telling your coffee maker to when
We all lead “double lives.” We have our personal lives where we can: control the technologies and devices we want to use, build and shape communities, share and collaborate with who we want where we want, easily access information, take out loans on a house
This is one of the bonuses I sent to people who pre-ordered a copy of my book, The Future of Work, last month. Now, I wanted to share it publicly with everyone else. It’s a compilation of some of my favorite quotes from the book and
The popular user generated content site reddit just killed off their remote worker program and issued a mandate that everyone must move to San Francisco or they are no longer going to be employed by the company. Clearly this is causing a lot of discussion
In 2011 the Chairman and CEO of Atos, Thierry Breton, publicly announced that he was on a mission to become a zero email company by 2013 (at least as far as employee communication and collaboration was concerned). When he announced this a few years ago
It’s been a few weeks now since we first launched the FOW Community to a very small and select group of members. We learned a lot through our initial (albeit quiet) launch and are getting ready to kick things up a bit. The goal of
I spent the past week in Kauai with my (now) wife, Blake Landau, (for our honeymoon) where we ate lots of good food, explored the island in a helicopter, took a boat tour, swam in the ocean, and did all sorts of fun touristy things.
