The End of a Job as We Know It

The concept of a job, as we know it, is starting to go away.

Let me explain. Over the last year I’ve been speaking with corporate business and human resource leaders and hearing a common theme: we need our organizations to be more agile. We need to redesign our organization to build dynamic cross-functional teams, communicate faster, and rapidly find experts.

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Think outside the cube

Think Outside the Cube: Why the Office Isn't the Best Workspace
http://www.forbes.com/sites/dailymuse/2012/01/20/think-outside-the-cube-why-the-office-isnt-the-best-workspace/

If the Boss is a Teleworker, Employees Are Less Satisfied

Workers whose bosses telework from remote locations get less feedback, feel less empowered, and are less satisfied with their jobs than workers whose bosses are on-site, according to a study of more than 11,000 corporate employees by Timothy D. Golden of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Allan Fromen of GfK Custom Research.

http://web.hbr.org/email/archive/dailystat.php?date=010912