NY Times: Companies Move Away
NY Times: Companies Move Away From Centralized OfficesFor more than a decade, heretic groups of corporate managers, technologists and consultants have promoted the idea that a decentralized network of workplaces might serve the needs of employees and companies better than a large central headquarters...But it is an idea that has usually failed to catch on, even as the necessary technology has become ubiquitous and affordable...But the current confluence of crisis and technology appears to be prompting a reassessment of old thinking about the way big organizations should organize people. These days, with businesses reconsidering the desirability of everything from opening mail to clustering people in urban centers, many companies are taking a closer look at the so-called distributed workplace — and studying the handful of corporations that have chosen to adopt it.
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