A: There's a clear trend toward integrating work and home life as home businesses ramp up
to full time operation and corporate managers are required to remotely work with employees in different countries and time zones.
The reasons driving working out of the home/telecommuting trend are diverse:
Many now work out of home offices integrated with their home life. Working from home has the advantage of eliminating commutes and staying close to family. In real estate terms, the presence of a “den/study” can add between 5 and 10% to the selling price of the house.
Family Dynamic Adjustments
The shift toward blending work and home is more of a psychological thing than it is making the home office space blend with the rest of the house. Working from home full-time requires family dynamic adjustments of who does what, where, when and how.
The reasons driving working out of the home/telecommuting trend are diverse:
Many now work out of home offices integrated with their home life. Working from home has the advantage of eliminating commutes and staying close to family. In real estate terms, the presence of a “den/study” can add between 5 and 10% to the selling price of the house.
Family Dynamic Adjustments
The shift toward blending work and home is more of a psychological thing than it is making the home office space blend with the rest of the house. Working from home full-time requires family dynamic adjustments of who does what, where, when and how.
On a 24/7 basis, everyone must recognize the need to improve their own people skills and family communication in an environment where new furniture makes work look more like home.
Quickly Connecting Problem Solvers with Problems
The true structure any organization is not what is written down on an organizational chart, but what actually occurs as people connect through roles, influence and decision-making processes.
Quickly Connecting Problem Solvers with Problems
The true structure any organization is not what is written down on an organizational chart, but what actually occurs as people connect through roles, influence and decision-making processes.
The connection and coordination necessary to get things done happens because of productive personal relationships based upon trust and reciprocity. Sharing knowledge and adding value to the organization depends upon the capabilities of workers to informally connect with others.
The challenge is to mine the tacit knowledge (in the heads of people where true knowledge resides) through providing an access method. The idea behind collaboration is that sharing knowledge leads to the co-creation of new actionable knowledge that leads solution development.
The challenge is to mine the tacit knowledge (in the heads of people where true knowledge resides) through providing an access method. The idea behind collaboration is that sharing knowledge leads to the co-creation of new actionable knowledge that leads solution development.
The key issue is getting people to think of themselves as part of a larger, collaborative community. However, changing people's behavior doesn't come easily, especially if they've been used to working independently in an office or factory location.
Understanding and facilitating business relationships, which flow through a web of professional networks and across functional boundaries and time zones, allows employees to create productive change. A company’s ability to structure and control the process of securing productive relationships, face-to-face or via home-based telecommuting, will determine its success in the marketplace.
In today's "global network society" (versus your father's "local box society" where most people went to work in an office or factory box everyday), you can conduct business wherever there is a telephone, wireless or cable connection.
Understanding and facilitating business relationships, which flow through a web of professional networks and across functional boundaries and time zones, allows employees to create productive change. A company’s ability to structure and control the process of securing productive relationships, face-to-face or via home-based telecommuting, will determine its success in the marketplace.
Within this interdependent global economy, our challenge is to develop inclusion and commitment in a world of telecommuting employees, "free agents" and even "volunteer" talent in different time zones and cultures.
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