So little time...
by Molly Webb
This article in Business Week "The Real Reasons You're Working So Hard..." is about men living in the US, and even though I'm neither a man nor am I living in the US, I still relate to the feeling that always-on technology leads to more information, more meetings to share that information, and eventually to a sleep-deprived workweek. So do we all have to get a blackberry? Well, not yet. Organisations apparently have to adapt to more 'bottom up' processes for communicating and getting things done. Some of us have known about this phenomenon for a while, but when it hits Business Week, you know that we're on the downhill side of the early-adopter curve:
"...we may see a rise in new forms of Web-based organizations where people can contribute without having their time eaten up by existing hierarchy. Blogs, collaborative online databases (called wikis) and open-source software development all use the Net to handle much of the coordination among people rather than relying on top-down command and control. Such a shift to a digital spine could eventually lessen bureaucratic time burdens on overworked professionals..."
We're experimenting with all this at the moment... hoping for a nice 8-hour rest soon!