In a physical sense, think about how much workspace you actually use when you get down to it? You maybe use a 3 foot-wide desk space, and when you measure the distance front of your desk to the back of your chair, you’re probably talking 5 feet…so, for most people, the actual working footprint is [...]

No, you’re right. The workplace is indeed shifting fast-and-furious, when compared to inter-generational trending of the past…and that’s saying an awful lot since the one that I ‘survived’ went through some substantial changes over a relatively short period of time. In the 60′s we saw major retooling of our world, fueled by what we saw [...]

Telecommuting isn’t for everybody, and probably isn’t for Yahoo – or at least not at this stage, in the estimation of Mayer. Fair enough. It’s her company, and prerogative to implement bold moves to turn around the fortunes of her company. But that’s not the issue. First of all, Mayer has allowed a particular, internal [...]

It is possible for telecommuting to not work at a particular organization, and if it doesn’t work, it should be suspended, possibly for reevaluation and possible re-implementation. There are far too many successful and fruitful examples of telecommuting worldwide, where they are being implemented and managed right, for it to be dismissed as an unworkable [...]

Recently at Yahoo, in the assessment of CEO Marissa Mayer, telecommuting wasn’t working, so she had her HR people order their telecommuting staff back to work out of headquarters. In her estimation, she wasn’t getting enough collaboration and teamwork out of her telecommuters, since they were scattered, off-site, and often unreachable when meetings and getting [...]

Telecommuting is not for every company, and every type of job. Obviously, if you’re a plumber, cab driver, police officer or waiter, you can’t telecommute, although if some part of your job requires administrative or ‘laptop’ work, you may not need a central office to handle certain tasks, no matter what your profession is. The [...]

Much of it has to do with the recent edict by Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo, which required their telecommuting staff to, with few exceptions, no longer work from home or anywhere elsewhere that is not the headquarters office. Some say her motivation was to shake up the troops and get them on track [...]

It certainly does. First of all, open-space working does not automatically mean that a people can’t stay to themselves and concentrate on the work at hand. At some Coworking spaces there are either designated sections laid out to facilitate more quiet , personal, uninterrupted work – while at other locations, some space operators go as [...]

It’s more than an illusion.  Recently, this highly coveted alternative workspace option has been gaining in popularity and size, at a growth rate of 50% per year. And no wonder – as more college grads enter the workforce with less attachment or commitment to the  work-styles and working environments that were the staples of past [...]

Just like in any other service-based business, it’ll run the gamut from poor, to adequate, to outstanding, depending on the standards of the owner of the Serviced Workspace. It’s your right and job to find the most convenient Workspace and Operator that meets your needs and expectations, and just like in any other consumer-based business, [...]