Change

The trends are very evident and aren’t going to reverse anytime soon. Digital executives need to understand them and develop strategies to take advantage of the up side. Our world is changing fast. It is our responsibility to help our employees navigate through it successfully.

Here are the trends:

1. Information overload – Today’s workers are inundated every day with more information than they know what to do with.
2. Internal networking – Related to the increase in collaborative work is the development of beneficial internal company relationships through technology.
3. Location independence – Cubicles and landlines are quickly becoming a thing of the past in many offices, where workers are opting for remote or flexible work locations
4. Distributed workforce – The rise in the number of mobile workers also means that many employees within the same company are scattered across different geographical locations.

Microsoft hosted an interactive panel discussion entitled “Future of Work” at its New York City office. Bryan Goode, Microsoft’s senior director of product marketing for enterprise social, facilitated the conversation among the seven speakers, whose companies are at the forefront of the new American workplace.

Based on their own internal operations and experiences, the speakers identified four major areas that they believe will change the status quo for how people work. While some of these trends have already started to enter modern workplaces, the panel agreed that their full effects will be seen over the next three to five years. 

via 4 Trends That Will Change the Way We Work | Fox Small Business Center.