Workforce 2.0

There’s a movement brewing. Can you feel it? It’s the tired, the poor and huddled masses in collared shirts and high heels yearning to breath free. We’re breaking through our tethers, turning our manila folders into torches and storming out of this place. I’m not the only one who can hear the disgruntled moans of my workplace brethren. ZenHabits’ enlightened piece on Productivity 2.0 shows me that there are pockets of the employed desperately fighting this machine.

I’m embracing the cliche that we are living in the midst of a communications revolution. We’re instantly and constantly wired so I wonder why the workplace isn’t adjusting to our virtual connectivity. But as the older regimes retire or are outsourced, my hope is that younger generations more comfortable with the technology will help redefine the workplace into something less of the brick-and-mortar variety. Maybe they can do something about the florescent lighting too.