THE NEW
AESTHETICS OF WORK
“
We are spending
less time in cubicles
as companies seek
to unlock creativity
and innovation
through open
space designs,
and rethinking the
rationale for being
in the office, at all.
“
Today, more than
35% of professional
and creative work in
the US is performed
by freelancers.
Over the past decade, how we work and where we work
have undergone dramatic change. Telework has become so
commonplace that the unlovely term no longer is used. We are
simply working wherever we are: at home, at the café, at the
airport, and in the office cafeteria. We are spending less time in
cubicles as companies seek to unlock creativity and innovation
through open space designs, and rethinking the rationale for being
in the office, at all.
Ubiquitous connectivity and mobile devices have become the norm,
allowing us – or inducing us – to stay always on, always connected.
And today, more than 35% of professional and creative work in the
US is performed by freelancers1, another shift in the economics
and ecology of the world of work.
by Stowe Boyd
Researcher-at-large
Work Talk Research
Clearly, the largest disruptive factor at work has been the
emergence of the Web and the impact it had on us as individuals,
and on the way that business is conducted. But there are a number
of other trends at work here, working independently and in concert
to change the way we think about work, collaboration, innovation,
and purpose.
1. A Jobs Plan for the Post Cubicle Economy - Sara Horowitz - The Atlantic
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