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Future Shock: a message from the past that defines the present

Workplace Insight

This is a past just as exotic as the future once described by the likes of Charles Handy, James Gleick and Alvin Toffler who died in 2016 in Los Angeles at the age of 87. But within living memory it was possible to shift the thinking of the planet with a book. His influence spread globally and his words resonate to this day.

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IBM Cuts Telecommuting and the Paradox of Place

Small Business Labs

Those who have been telecommuting have the choice of moving or leaving the company. IBM, of course, isn't the only well known example of a company reducing or eliminating telecommuting. Yahoo rather famously did this several years ago and Google and Apple have always tried to limit telecommuting.