CHAPTER 9

Work is not a place

“44% of remote workers travel while working between one week and one month per year, and 25% of respondents do this work/travel combination more than one month of the year.”1

If you grew up in the 1980s like me, you might associate the word work with a place, a physical place you go. Mum, Dad and other adults and role models in your life perhaps went to work and they came home, took off their tie or work shoes and slid into family life. Work was an office, a site, or a mapped out area of the county. But was work really ever a place or was or is it something we do?

When I started work then, sharing articles meant photocopying them, and the office I began my comms career in had an internal train for the mail, which ...

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