Stay Home and Work
by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
What is one simple thing you can do to improve the growth of your business, raise productivity ease the juggle for working families, decrease pollution, reduce traffic congestion, keep educated women in the workforce, and decrease your employees’ stress? Make it the norm for your employees to work at home at least one day a week.
It is amazing that in the digital age, most work is still associated with industrial age work rhythms and the symbolic chains that tie workers, knowledge, and otherwise to fixed locations. Flexible workplaces with flexible hours and days are long in coming.
The daily commute to work has high costs in time, aggravation, fuel consumption, and pollution. If it became a staggered ...
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