Maybe great minds do think alike
There are many themes running through the history of the workplace; one that I have followed for many years is the challenge of engaging and coordinating a distributed and highly mobile…
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London transport shuts down; agile workers unaffected
(by @paulcarder co-founder @occupiers)
London's Financial Times reported this morning, "The worst London Underground strike in more than a decade saw millions of Londoners struggle to get…
Last one in the office, please switch off the lease
I come from the far west of England; the rugby-loving county of Cornwall. Because I was large, I had to play, but was never much good. My second-row buddy went on to play for Scotland and…
PLACEMAKER: a notional case study: Wallace & Sprocket LLP
Development of a teaching 'case study': Wallace&Sprocket LLP
(Note: it would be great to receive your feedback - and perhaps, somewhere out there, real-life examples which are similar…
PLACEMAKER: a cure for commuting
By @paulcarder : https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulcarder
Type the words "cure for commuting" into Google, you will find 6,580 results. Type the words "cure for stress" into Google, you will…
PLACEMAKER: 2040: “Grandma, what was commuting?”
Imagine that a child was given school homework, to make a PowerPoint slide of Mum's journey to and from work. It may look like this: https://app.box.com/s/w19otbry4gt53m3zfs3q - hopefully…
PLACEMAKER: its not what you do, its the way that you do it
by Paul Carder (paul.carder@occupiersjournal.com); Twitter: @paulcarder
When Terry Hall of Fun Boy Three brought Bananarama in as backing vocals in 1982, to release "It ain't what you do, …
The challenge of personalization; another nail in the coffin of the office monolith
Every human being is different – that fact needs no referencing. Yet, people work in groups, and multiple groups become organisations. The larger the organisation, the more generalization…
Free Webinar on “Leveraging Mobile Work to Engage Your Employees”
When: Thursday, March 7, at Noon Pacific Standard Time
Register: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/476196598
Please join me and my colleague, Pi Wen Looi of Novacrea Research, for a…
Great Story about Distributed Work – and Occupiers Journal – in the…
We were very pleased to discover that Maija Palmer's latest article about the "new world of work" in The Financial Times actually uses our director Jim Ware and OJL as a case study.
You…