Work continues moving to "cheaper countries", increasingly in terms of higher value jobs... the significantly cheaper price of a working hour is always be mentioned as the reason for this. Looking around, hearing friends and relatives, having experienced myself, makes me wonder if there are couple of other very important reasons....
1. pretty freaking horrid inefficiency that has been slowly (?) inbuild to our western corporate way of working through our "meeting culture". Massive amounts of meetings! That's what pretty much everybody seem to be having, constantly. And Individuals trying to manage their real work during evenings... which in turns slowly turns into de-facto burn-outs. Or at least constant lack of rest = ineffectivity in the long term.
I started working 1992 in Nokia, and in my own experience the big change started from working to "working"=meetings started after 2004 or so....
As a curiosity & sort of a proof of this can be seen in Nokia's Ruoholahti office - I guess it was designed around 2000 and each wing was planned to have 1 meeting room. I went there 2003 and left the site 2008 - during that time, 4 rooms were turned into new meeting rooms per wing - at they were constatly booked.
2. email has turned into as source of communicative chaos and burn-outer of human beings.... as it is now being used in many corporates, it is menace instead of usefull communicative tool. I bet it is a great source of inefficiency in the western working culture.
3. genuinely working community and common total end result (economical and sprititual) driven management has largely disappeared, and has been substituted by individual agendas only.
Sad. Hopefully the new working generation with it's emerging new values, will save the western competitiveness and wealth.
1. pretty freaking horrid inefficiency that has been slowly (?) inbuild to our western corporate way of working through our "meeting culture". Massive amounts of meetings! That's what pretty much everybody seem to be having, constantly. And Individuals trying to manage their real work during evenings... which in turns slowly turns into de-facto burn-outs. Or at least constant lack of rest = ineffectivity in the long term.
I started working 1992 in Nokia, and in my own experience the big change started from working to "working"=meetings started after 2004 or so....
As a curiosity & sort of a proof of this can be seen in Nokia's Ruoholahti office - I guess it was designed around 2000 and each wing was planned to have 1 meeting room. I went there 2003 and left the site 2008 - during that time, 4 rooms were turned into new meeting rooms per wing - at they were constatly booked.
2. email has turned into as source of communicative chaos and burn-outer of human beings.... as it is now being used in many corporates, it is menace instead of usefull communicative tool. I bet it is a great source of inefficiency in the western working culture.
3. genuinely working community and common total end result (economical and sprititual) driven management has largely disappeared, and has been substituted by individual agendas only.
Sad. Hopefully the new working generation with it's emerging new values, will save the western competitiveness and wealth.
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Psst! We could try reading email only 2ice a day - that'd be rad and awesome.
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