Welcome to Future Tense

Future Tense is about the trends and pressures that are forcing employers to change the way they think about the workplace. We'll be discussing management practices and collaborative tools, innovation and motivation, architecture, distributed work, mobility and gradual retirement. We will track how traditional hierarchies are breaking down and what is rising to replace them. Our goal is to look into the near future and provide useful information, case studies and interviews with leading thinkers. By identifying and discussing the multitude of trends that are reshaping work as we know it, we hope to provide a valuable resource to the people who are leading the way forward.

We have a great group of authors here, and I encourage you to read each of their inaugural posts, as they each define from what point of view they will be approaching this conversation:

Dave Desforges: Remote Worker Skills

Jim McGee: Making It Up As We Go

Regina Miller: Working Identities and the Future of Work

Jim Ware: The Future is Already Here - It's Just Not Evenly Distributed

I describe my point of view here: Communications at the Heart of the Future of Work

It's likely, if you are reading this, you are already living the future of work in one way or another. I hope you continue to read, and contribute your thoughts and questions as well. This is an enormous topic to tackle, but with your help, we can create some high quality collective intelligence about current trends and how organizations around the world are changing to embrace new ways of working.