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Reflections on the Future of Work: Why Does Anyone Need an Office?

Dr. Borenstein will share lessons from 3 decades of working from home with distributed teams, often spread across the globe. He will present a mixture of technological, organizational, physical, and social techniques that build and support effective distributed teams, to offer practical suggestions for anyone trying to manage remote workers.

Ever since the first lucky few workers obtained "dumb" terminals and slow modems to work from home in the 1970's, information technology has been steadily eroding the link between work and office. With the advent of cloud computing and powerful mobile devices, physical location is less relevant than ever for a growing segment of the workplace to fulfill the formal duties of their employment.Often misunderstood, however, are the informal aspects that apply nearly any job, and the way that these function for remote users. Having worked, since 1980, primarily from home, as part of successful teams spread around the globe, I have seen many things go wrong and several go right. In this talk I will describe organizational and management techniques that are most likely to elicit successful teamwork from highly distributed teams. These techniques include technological, organizational, physical, and social approaches to building teams that work mostly from home.

 

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