Monday, August 27, 2007

The Future of the Workplace: No Office, Headquarters in Cyberspace

ABC News reports:
Imagine a work world with no commute, no corporate headquarters and perhaps not even an office in the physical world at all.

For Bob Flavin, a computer scientist at IBM; Janet Hoffman, an executive at a management consulting firm; and Joseph Jaffe, a marketing entrepreneur, the future is already here.


"These days we do so much by teleconference it really doesn't matter where you are," Flavin said.

Like 42 percent of IBM's 350,000 employees, Flavin rarely comes in to an IBM office.
You've got to wonder if old downtown real estate is going to be a place with as many corporate employees.