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Will the Gig Economy Make the Office Obsolete?

Harvard Business Review

In fact, any data that exists on work in an office reveals that most employees aren’t engaged , waste a lot of time in the office not working , and that employee underperformance persists despite the omnipresence of management. Even worse, the direct costs of maintaining the traditional office-based workplace are high.

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Ys Just Wanna Have Fun (and Flexibility)

Harvard Business Review

A third of our new hires come from India and China," explains a senior manager in Cisco 's inclusion and diversity division for the Asia-Pacific region. Flexibility is one of the most important aspects of being a competitive employer," notes Kerrie Peraino, Senior Vice President, International Human Resources at American Express.

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Harness Talent Mobility

Skip Prichard

To enable this, businesses must shift to make talent mobility a core part of the traditional human resources function and consolidate the responsibilities for these different types of movement. Real estate costs are declining, but companies must correspondingly invest in virtual work technologies (video conferencing, messaging etc.)

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Prepare for the New Permanent Temp

Harvard Business Review

Just ask anyone working in the health care, financial services, automobile, retail, media, publishing, education, advertising, real estate or defense industries. In fact, temps with Androids and iPhones already use services like Gigwalk and LinkedIn to more profitably find and manage their part-time and/or temporary work.

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Where the Green Jobs Really Are

Harvard Business Review

We can transform the way people work to achieve change on a mass level, and every manager can encourage sustainability by making one modification that would benefit the environment. For most, real estate is the second-largest expense. The long-term environmental cost is too great not to try.

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Bring Nomadic Employees Back to the Mothership

Harvard Business Review

While we can thank technology and increasingly flexible office policies for the shift away from the office, for many companies, mobility has simply been an unintended consequence of trying to keep pace with change, as well as a calculable means to rein in real estate costs. The rise of the emotionally intelligent workplace.