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The office of the future

The office of the future

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The office of the future

- The contingent-worker model and the gig economy are becoming more prevalent. The days of a bunch of people working together in an office are slowly giving way to meetings being held via Google Hangouts with one person in a Starbucks and the other on a train headed somewhere. As I mentioned earlier, MIT professor Tom Malone theorizes that companies will devolve over the next decades into core teams at the top but most business activities will be conducted using a network, similar to the resourcing models and processes that are used today to make movies. As a result, the idea of hiring and working will take on a whole new meaning and dimension. Teams are going to form and disband. They're going to focus on a project. Once that project is completed, they'll go on to the next engagement. Teams will create solutions and address business problems and share expertise from anywhere on the planet, maybe from locations not on the…

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