We are about to witness a seismic shift in the world of work. And I don’t mean all this stuff about working from home, or teleworking, or flexible working, or whatever today’s buzzword is. That has been going on to a greater or lesser extent since the word “telecommuting” was formally coined in the early 1970s.
No, it’s something deeper than that. We are going to witness the acceleration of a model that challenges long-held beliefs around what it means to be a manager or to be an employee. What “work” means in common parlance will also change.
I’m not saying this will happen overnight and, as William Gibson (as cited in Pettman, 2009) said, “The future is already here—it’s just not evenly distributed,” but change is coming and, like a ...
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