Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Work Comes Back Home

Friend, fellow improviser, and the World's Best Presenter two years running, Jeff Brenman, recently posted another interesting slide show. It's about the increasing trend of working from home. Thanks to increases in communication technology, jobs that were created only a decade ago, are already be homesourced. However, the title of the slide show, The Future of Work, misrepresents world history. Working from home isn't the future, it's the past. Before the Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800's almost all people worked on the family farm. It wasn't until the birth of factories that men left the home to work. Perhaps the last two centuries may be the exception to the long term trend of working from the home. As someone that commutes a lot, I look forward to that.

1 comment:

  1. That's such a good point, Harrison. Excellent food for thought.

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