![]() ![]() ![]() Quite the opposite! And all of that as we learn, pretty fast, how to cope with everything while in the midst of a pandemic. It’s just one other option we are growing fonder of as it keeps reminding us that we still have a life, after all. It’s shown us our incredible adaptation skills as human beings in literally switching from working in an office to work from home in a matter of days without our productivity suffering much as a result. If there is anything the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us is that working from anywhere (usually, in a distributed manner) is no longer a dirty word. Work happens anywhere where you may well be with the digital tools as your disposal. One where we are finally coming to terms with the fact that work has stopped being a physical space and, instead, it’s a state of mind. It was purely a lack of true leadership to anticipate what’s now the new-normal. It wasn’t a lack of funding, resources, time, manpower, adaptability, purpose, etc. ‘In 2020 we, finally, learned the main reason why vast majority of organisations didn’t adapt to digital technologies at the workplace was mainly motivation. Thus, without much further ado, here you have ‘ Shift happens: The future office / library in a connected world’: Has the workplace and the nature of work finally shifted for the better? Should it? That piece was published in September last year and I thought I’d share across the part I wrote myself over here, in its entirety, to see how it has aged since then. Next to the online debate we also put together an accompanying article to explain our own individual positions on the topic of distributed work, the impact of social, digital tools, where we are today, and what may lie, potentially, ahead of us in the near future. There is a recording of the virtual session we participated in, so that you can take a look for yourself (see embedded video below, if interested). I had a blast at the event and surely learned a lot with all of the intense conversations we had throughout. A few months back, my good friend Paul Corney, kindly invited me to participate in the CILIP: The library and information association’s Presidential Debate on ‘ Shift happens: the future office / library in a connected world‘, along with Neil Usher and Robert Cottrill. So, here we go with the first one of those publications. And, why not?, perhaps revisit what I wrote back then and see how it would hold today. That’s why, when I, finally, decided to resume, once again, my own blogging mojo, I thought about bringing some of those articles back home, where they should belong, in an effort to also help me keep track of what I write and publish elsewhere. Nowadays on the concept of Distributed Work and the impact of social, digital tools as key enablers.Īt the same time, and as I have mentioned in a previous blog post, it’s been somewhat awkward, and perhaps a tad uncomfortable, having to tell people where to go, other than my own (silent, till recently) blog, to read some more about my own in-depth thinking on certain subjects. I have always appreciated the opportunity to help amplify different conversations around topics I am very passionate about by sharing my two cents’ worth of commentary. ![]() It’s been a real treat, a true pleasure and an honour. Over the course of the last few years I have been planting seeds all over the place.
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