November 19, 2021

Workplace data proves that the devil is in the detail for the new era of work

by Steve Morren • Comment, Flexible working, Technology, Workplace design

Predicting the future is a fool’s errand. History is littered with examples of people who got it horribly wrong. In 1876, William Orten, the president of then telegraphy pioneer Western Union, claimed that the telephone was an idiotic, ungainly and impractical idea that would never catch on. Almost a century later, Microsoft’s Bill Gates said that nobody would ever need more than 640KB of memory in a computer. Today’s home computers and laptops can store up to 32GB of memory. More →

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Workplace data proves that the devil is in the detail for the new era of work

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