Bring Nomadic Employees Back to the Mothership - Philip Tidd - Harvard Business Review - 2 views
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By 2015, 1.3 billion people worldwide will be working remotely. That's almost 40% of the entire global workforce.
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the power of physical place. A good workplace bonds employees to one another in ways that virtual communication cannot replicate.
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An evolving need for collaborative and private space. The open-plan office promised increased collaboration, economies of space, and cost savings. What it's delivered is a dilemma: visually exciting offices with lots of buzz on the one hand, and on the other, a lack of privacy and quiet.
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To function well, an office must provide a healthy mix of spaces — quiet, collaborative, and social.
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one of the key roles of the new generation of modern executive is to create a more emotionally open, collaborative working environment, then we should be designing physical space that supports that mandate.