I enjoy creative nonfiction that explores the work we choose to do and the various conflicts therein. Scott Partee works for the U.N. in Vienna. Here's how he describes it: I just finished crawling around in a rat hole while wearing a suit to lay down some network infrastructure for some highly confidential nuclear nonproliferation air-gapped ta-do da whooptiewhitz. Now, that's making geekery sound fine. No easy …
Remote Locations Difficult To Manage
Network World reports on the difficulties faced by offsite workers and their managers. IBM’s efforts to create a flexible work environment have been so successful that 40% of its 330,000 employees work from home, on the road, or at a client location on any given day. But a few years ago, the company realized that as its staff became more distributed, employee morale was weakening. In the region Dan Pelino inherited …
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Workspaces Are Key To Productivity
New York Times is running a story on college presidents with blogs. But I'm more interested in this woman's desk. …
His Loss Is Our Gain
The Bullshit Observer on attending yet another meeting: I have a 2.5 hour meeting this afternoon. A full 95% of this meeting will be a fingernails-on-the-chalkboard waste of my time. I'm bringing an illustration in that I've been wanted to sketch. I've done some of my best drawing in meetings. As a plebeian worker ant in today's business world, one goes to A LOT of meetings. Some of the director-level worker ants I …
If You’re Serious About Transparency, Try Public Office Space
Prime Pearl Street "office space" Om Malik's place has a guest piece from Jackson West. Mr. West's topic is coffee houses as Web 2.0 office spaces. Forget Palo Alto garages — San Francisco coffee shops are where to get your startup off the ground. Internet cafes are emerging as an important place to get work done, hold meetings and network. Since writers, designers, developers and anyone else who can work from their …
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If You Can Make It There You Can Make It Anywhere
NYT: New York City's creative sector - which includes architects, potters, filmmakers and clothing designers - has long helped fuel the city's economy because of its size and its role in drawing the wealthy to town. But relentless inflation in real estate and health care costs are endangering New York's long dominance in the creative sector, according to a new report, as artists and companies migrate to less …
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A Clean Well Lighted Place
Butler Shine's Influx Insights features a write up on Paragraph, a new work space for writers. Their interest is centered around the idea of cultural hubs and how brands might benefit from the creation of such places. In the case of Paragraph, it's not a brand, but an entrepreneurial team of writers behind the launch of this for profit collaborative workspace. Memberships go for $132 a month. Less, if you pay in a …