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With CFOs looking to trim down real estate costs, data centers may be the de facto gravitational center of organizations in terms of square footage (aside from manufacturing plants, that is). Companies may see a benefit in using short-term office space to handle planned surges in "on site" work, as they sublet out sections of their own offices or escape from leases in expensive office towers.
The strength of the office is collaboration, so offices will have to become collaboration-centric. That doesn't mean the open-plan office fad will continue, however. What it means is that technology is going to have to make the office more of a hub for remote collaboration—more video, more screen sharing, and more virtualization of physical collaboration tools like whiteboards. Conference rooms are going to have fewer chairs and more screens, with face-to-face collaboration via video becoming the de-facto way to do meetings.
Work that can only be done in the office—whether it be due to compliance issues, the computing or bandwidth required to do it, or the need for interaction with expensive physical objects—will also have to leverage collaboration with people who can't be there to put hands on. Tasks like rapid prototyping and product engineering and lab work, for example, require interaction with expensive gear that can't be dropped into a virtual collaboration space (yet) but can benefit from visiting and remote collaborators.
Can a mix of VR/AR substitute for a physical office for the purposes of collaboration?
(Score: 2) by VLM on Saturday August 22 2020, @02:19PM (2 children)
There's a typo in the artice:
the actual text reads
Personally I think its more likely you'll see massive increase in surveillance. Your home office will have a webcam you have no control over and it records everything all the time at the absolute minimum. Home offices will likely require keystroke loggers to the n-th level. For people living in tiny studio apartments and the like, this will be whole-house 24x7 surveillance and there will be leftist authoritarians on the internet strongly supporting that tech.
(Score: 3, Informative) by kazzie on Saturday August 22 2020, @02:42PM
There's a typo in "There's a typo in the artice" .
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday August 22 2020, @03:40PM
My home office now has a webcam, which our management wanted so we could see each other face-to-face during meetings. It's pretty cool actually: it's a USB webcam (this is a workstation, not a laptop, so it's impossible to have a built-in webcam), and it has a physical door built in that slides over the camera lens when you don't want to be seen and don't trust the green LED that indicates the camera is on.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure we've already had court cases which prevent employers from taking all your time, or expecting you to have zero privacy.