Nine Shift

#1 Telecommuting Keeps Growing

   The numbers on people and companies and hours spent working from home all keep growing.
There’s no sign telecommuting will stop or even plateau.
This is the silent revolution driving the changes in work, life and education in society right now. 

Not everyone will work from home, but 25% to 50% of people will.
And those people are the ones most likely to be most productive and generating income for their work organizations.

  Just three of the latest stats:
*50% of the US workforce holds a job that is compatible with at least partial telework and approximately 40% of the workforce works remotely at some frequency.
*80% to 90% of the US workforce say they would like to telework at least part-time
*Regular work-at-home, among the non-self-employed population, has grown by 159% since 2005, more than 11x faster than the rest of the workforce and nearly 50x faster than the self-employed population.  
   We predicted this as Shift One. in our 2000 book NineShift.

#2 Virtual Office Tools Everywhere

  You probably don’t realize just how many ‘virtual office’ tools you use.
Dispersed workers are just about in every large organization these days.
They communicate and work together with others from a distance using online tools and software that just keeps getting better, with more of them.

  You can think of GotoMeeting as one popular tool.  Just in our LERN organization, we use over 10 virtual office tools. We also built three Intranets ourselves, including our Online Classrooms and LERN Club. 
  In a month we start using our next tool, the Office 365 planner tool for group scheduling.
   We predicted this as Shift Two. in our 2000 book NineShift.

#3 Organizational Structures Have Changed

   The Org Chart is dead. 
Leaders are now befuddled about being inbetween the organizational pyramid of the last century and the organizational network of this century.
Organizational structures have been flattened, dispersed, contracted out. The org chart is dead. 

   What business leaders report is that the network is faster, more productive and more profitable than the pyramid.
   At LERN we have not done an org chart for 25 years, since we went virtual.
We predicted this as Shift Three. in our 2000 book NineShift.

Last NineShift Presentation Streamed Live! Thurs Nov 21

REMEMBER, the last NineShift presentation, the Grand Finale, will be streamed online Live!
and Free from Paradise Point Resort in San Diego on Thursday, November 21.
No registration needed.
Just go to www.lern.org to view it.
Noon ET;  11 am CT; 10 am MT; 9 am PT.