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It wasn't much more than century ago when the majority of the population did work from home (on the farm). It really has only been decades that the office has b
by randomdata 14y ago
It wasn't much more than century ago when the majority of the population did work from home (on the farm). It really has only been decades that the office has been the primary place of business.
To see working patterns shift back to "the farm", so to speak, doesn't seem unreasonable at all in my mind. It probably will not completely eliminate the office, but we could see only, say, 10-20% of the population still working in offices in the future.
- HeyLaughingBoy 14y agoOne interesting question is did they actually like being alone on the farm? Or were they doing it because it was the only option? Pretty much everywhere you look, kids are leaving farms for cities. Cities offer more options. Now, a lot of them do go back, but it's often a decade or more later when they're settled down with families. Perhaps we will never shift to mostly working alone simply because we're basically herd animals.
- jenko 14y agoAlso as one tries to take a higher level view of the office, one of the conclusions could be that up until now the primary goal of the office was to offer shared access to some central resource as it was impossible to offer this resource (wahtever that might be) outside of some central location. Now given the global connectivity this shared resource(s) are most often avaialbe globaly as well, and the question becomes evident more and more each day as to why keep the office anymore...Why do the 'kolhoz' if everybody can have their own farm now.