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What Life Could Be Like In The Distributed Office
The pandemic threw work life out of the office and into the world. And it just might be the best thing that could happen.
We’re still in the middle of the hurricane dubbed Covid-19. The virus has picked our world up, like a fistful of sand, and thrown it up in the air, where all the grains now levitate in uncertainty.
Only one thing is certain. Once the dust settles, few things will land back in the same place they were before.
Work life is just one aspect. And it is my prediction — and the prediction of countless others, including giants like Twitter and Facebook — that the sand grains of work life will land down as the new Distributed Office.
What is the Distributed Office?
Basically the Distributed Office is the extension of trends that were already present before the Covid-19 pandemic. The virus just fast-forwarded us a decade or two into this development.
The Distributed Office means that the office is no longer a physical building, where work has to happen in a physical space, at a certain (arbitrary) time or pace. Instead, the Distributed Office is a platform consisting of all the people contributing to the same cause — i.e…
