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We are not blank slates and we don’t adapt to change in predictable ways

Workplace Insight

It bears some comparisons with Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society by Nicholas A Christakis which offered a wide-ranging look at how people and their societies and environments are shaped by their innate and sometimes unchangeable characteristics. It’s not even as if people can expect to be less distracted than in an office.

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Work-Life Balance 2.0 and Small Business | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

This will not only deal with problems for the younger generation to get onto the “ property ladder “, but may in time re-establish the multi-generation household with all it’s social benefits of care for the elderly, or supervision of children by grandparents, while the parent is in the “home-office&# earning a living.

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