Find Distance NewWorkPlaces
I find it interesting that the most innovative work places are occurring
not in corporate offices, but rather in public and commercial places. It
would seem that the great American ‘marketplace’ is successfully engaged.
Retail and commercial, and now public, entities competing for survival, are
providing the new form of supply they have accurately assessed as demand
from their clients and customers – people wanting more than a singly
defined, singly enabled place.
Reflective of the change in the very nature of work itself – from single-
tasked to multiple tasks - these diverse and mixed use places are cropping
up all over.
Below are just a few examples of these NewWorkPlaces.
I find it interesting that the most innovative work places are occurring
not in corporate offices, but rather in public and commercial places. It
would seem that the great American ‘marketplace’ is successfully engaged.
Retail and commercial, and now public, entities competing for survival, are
providing the new form of supply they have accurately assessed as demand
from their clients and customers – people wanting more than a singly
defined, singly enabled place.
Reflective of the change in the very nature of work itself – from single-
tasked to multiple tasks - these diverse and mixed use places are cropping
up all over.
Below are just a few examples of these NewWorkPlaces.
Retail/Commercial:
Starbucks - Los Gatos
Panera Bread - San Jose
Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay
Public:
Tully Community Library
Private:
My Home Office
Corporate:
Google Zurich
Starbucks - Los Gatos
Panera Bread - San Jose
Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay
Public:
Tully Community Library
Private:
My Home Office
Corporate:
Google Zurich
Know of a great NewWorkPlace and would like to share?
Please contact me.
Please contact me.
Distance Work
Ever since Alexander Graham Bell called to Mr. Watson over his new telephone invention, business has
engaged technology to connect people and work at a distance. Distance work - people-to-people,
knowledge-work, over technology - has expanded into every aspect of business. In reality, all
knowledge-work is distance work, which now outstrips all other work at a 4 to 1 ratio.
If 20% or more of your workforce engages in knowledge-work, needs to be creative and innovative
using technology or does work at a distance, you need both individual and organizational strategies,
plans and processes which specifically support that work, make work productive, are scalable and
sustainable for the future.
It is time to take a fresh approach to a successful business model.
Ever since Alexander Graham Bell called to Mr. Watson over his new telephone invention, business has
engaged technology to connect people and work at a distance. Distance work - people-to-people,
knowledge-work, over technology - has expanded into every aspect of business. In reality, all
knowledge-work is distance work, which now outstrips all other work at a 4 to 1 ratio.
If 20% or more of your workforce engages in knowledge-work, needs to be creative and innovative
using technology or does work at a distance, you need both individual and organizational strategies,
plans and processes which specifically support that work, make work productive, are scalable and
sustainable for the future.
It is time to take a fresh approach to a successful business model.
- To evolve beyond the silos of on-site, off-site, tele, flex, remote, mobile, virtual and distributed
work - To drill holes and reach through the organizational barrier walls of departments and functions.
- To innovate processes and infrastructure in support of work and creativity.
- To make distance work, enabling work anyplace - with goal driven, purposeful business
strategies. - To become a NewWorkPlace for a new, better future.
Distance Work is a 21st century business process.
Enabled by technology, work now occurs beyond the boudaries of place, time and space.
Though constantly evoloving, here are commonly accepted various types of distance work that can be
performed singly or simultaneousy in concert in many places.
Telecommuting: Working from home, while employed by a company,
Job Share: Dividing up the work hours between 2 or more people,
Enabled by technology, work now occurs beyond the boudaries of place, time and space.
Though constantly evoloving, here are commonly accepted various types of distance work that can be
performed singly or simultaneousy in concert in many places.
Telecommuting: Working from home, while employed by a company,
- one or more days per year, month, or week.
Example: company-to-home
- over technology and the Internet to clients, employees and colleagues.
Example: business-to-business (B2B),
- with another person in a different company office or with a client in their office
Example: headquarters-to branch-office
- customer or client as an individual or employee who resides in a non-company
facility (home - same as telecommuting, 3rd places, coffee shop, etc.)
Example: in a customer’s office
- Example: in a train, plane or automobile
- work day over the 6 am – midnight, 12 hour real day withpersonal breaks in-
between
Job Share: Dividing up the work hours between 2 or more people,
- each working less than 40 hours in the work week
- 4 – 10 hours days with one work week day off
My passion
I come from the Silicon Valley. I have worked with people, place, process and technology for 30 years. I
understand the opportunities, and pitfalls, that technology brings. My passion is for you, your business
and you the business person, to fully capitalize on the advantages that technological innovation can
deliver, avoiding the chasms and mind-numbing inertia.
A successful NewWorkPlace and a 21st century organization will put people and their work first,
process and technology second.
The former comprise your essence and core. The latter are the tools you will use to strategically make
tech advancements work for you,
Enabling the social and organizational innovation that technology brings ensures:
I come from the Silicon Valley. I have worked with people, place, process and technology for 30 years. I
understand the opportunities, and pitfalls, that technology brings. My passion is for you, your business
and you the business person, to fully capitalize on the advantages that technological innovation can
deliver, avoiding the chasms and mind-numbing inertia.
A successful NewWorkPlace and a 21st century organization will put people and their work first,
process and technology second.
The former comprise your essence and core. The latter are the tools you will use to strategically make
tech advancements work for you,
Enabling the social and organizational innovation that technology brings ensures:
- work regardless of place, space and time
- distance is not about place, just a state of mind
- business will survive, thrive and grow
- and people will too
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