This is a fascinating look at how digital workplaces, which now enable anywhere work, is changing what people want from their homes. This from the NYT Seven Ways Telecommuting Has Changed Real...
Allowing work from anywhere is good for business and the planet
A new study on anywhere work and location independence entitled (Live and) Work from Anywhere: Geographic Flexibility and Productivity Effects at the United States Patent Office shows the benefits...
Finland leading the way
Across the world many places (in this case Finland) are recognizing that digital workplaces are dramatically changing how we work and from where. This from the Nordic Law piece New Working Hours Act...
How would you answer – is it time to let your employees work from anywhere?
This was the question asked in this HBR piece entitled Is It Time to Let Employees Work from Anywhere? The answer to this question is of course yes. However, only when these conditions have been...
Exchanging a physical office for an office in the cloud
This piece is from The Guardian in October 2013 entitled Is cloud technology making physical offices obsolete. Even back then there were companies that were experiencing the benefits of moving their...
Then and now
Let me paint the picture for you. An executive team has given urgent priority to creating a digitisation strategy for their business. As a starting point they want an overview of exactly where...
Where would you live if you could work from anywhere?
Several rural cities in the US have campaigns to entice families to move to them, going so far as to offer a monetary incentive, in the case of Tulsa, $10,000 to help you settle. If I think of...
A new breed of company
This is a group photo of the GitLab team taken at their annual summit a few months back in Cape Town. There are currently approximately 350 in the team. The company is doing really well. Last year...
Meet the anywhere workers
Meet the anywhere workers. This is a mega trend as technology revolutionises the workplace. Read more about this research here “There’s a new generation of workers who won’t be tied to any one...
Digital workplaces result in business flexibility
Industry after industry is being impacted by the digital workplace. In a recent report entitled The Workplace Revolution the team at Regus made this observation: “The commercial property world...
The future of work is anywhere working
This is the conclusion reached by research commissioned by Polycom. Those companies who understand this reality and as a result aggressively evolve their businesses to enable their teams to work...
This is how smart companies of the future will work
What you are looking at here is a picture depicting, on a map, where Automattic’s team members are situated. That would be 611 people, in 58 countries, speaking 80 languages. Here is the interesting...