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The way
to sanity in the Workplace Revolution?
Turn it Off!
What is the flip side of the "anywhere,
anytime" workplace? It's that work can also be "everywhere,
all the time"! Recently in
Flexibility we reported the e-MORI/Toshiba survey
which showed the extra productivity of laptop users - and the danger of
letting the technology take over. There is much advice on
the Flexibility website about how to manage the
location-independent workforce. For the individual there is also a need
to manage their new-found flexibility effectively. One of the benefits
of flexible working should be an increase in in autonomy - a greater
ability to control one's working life. But it's also
possible that the opposite can happen. So the publication of a new book
by telecommuting pioneer Gil Gordon is a timely reminder that there is
life beyond work. Gil's advice is to learn both how to control the
anywhere-anytime office, and how to get away from it.
As someone once said, "There are few of us whose
last words would be, 'I wish I'd spent more time at the office'
!"
Turn It Off is now available at Amazon.com
and other online bookstores, and should be available in traditional
bookstores as well.
TURN IT OFF is also being published by Nicholas
Brealey Publishing for sale outside of the US and Canada. You can
order the book at the Amazon.com
UK site or place your order with the publisher. |
