The ‘Fifth Age’ of Work: How the Cloud Is Changing Your Career
February 13, 2014
Grazed from BusinessNewsDaily. Author: Elizabeth Palermo.
"Where do you work?" There was a time when that question might have received a simple answer: a company name, or a physical address. But in the age of cloud computing, smartphones and telecommuting, workers are moving away from the confines of cubicles and corporate addresses and toward something more difficult to plot on a map.
Andrew Jones — an organizational business consultant, educator and partner at Conjunctured, a co-working space in Austin, Texas — believes that the mobility of today’s workforce is an integral part of any discussion on employment in the 21st century. His new book, "The Fifth Age of Work: How Companies Can Redesign Work to Become More Innovative in a Cloud Economy" (Night Owls Press, November 2013), redefines conventional ideas about where, when and how people go to work in the modern age…
In an email interview with Business News Daily, Jones explained the trends – like co-working, collaborative innovation and design thinking – affecting today’s workforce, and offers important insight into how businesses can get ahead in the new age of work…
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