Office Shock: The Spectrum of Time and Place

WHAT IF WE IMAGINE A FUTURE WHERE IT IS EASY TO MOVE BETWEEN IN-PERSON AND VIRTUAL EXPERIENCES?
Imagine a world in which it is easy to move between in-person and virtual experiences. In this future world, we will always be online and enhanced, unless we choose to be offline. While the goal of virtual meetings used to be approximate face-to-face meetings, the new mantra will be to create ways of working that are better than in-person offices alone. Better ways of working, better ways of living, better ways of making the future. COVID-19 hybrid work was only an incremental step toward the officeverse—a nested network of networks.

In their book, "Office Shock: Creating Better Futures for Working and Living," Bob Johansen and co-authors Joseph Press and Christine Bullen, will show you how to think future back — asking the questions:
What future do we envision?
What changes are coming next?
What shall we do now, to prepare ourself for unprecedented futures?
COVID-19, with all its tragic consequences, also created an opportunity to ask this basic question: why do we work in offices at all?

Office Shock, published by Berrett-Koehler in 2023, prepares leaders to answer these questions, and more. It identifies the spectrums of choices that must be made in the present to make a better office, and a better future. It will also educate readers on how to think about the future back — forecasting futures, revealing insights, and aligning actions — to re-imagine where and how “office work” can and should be done.
Find out more at www.officeshock.org

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