 In an interesting article published at BBC online, the journalist Fiona Graham describes the Flying Chairs as example of a visionary technology which came to confirm how important labour flexibility is for these and other times professionals. For this reason, we were not surprised when verified that the current number of mobile devices is superior to the world's population. According to the US Census Bureau the current population goes up to 7.2 billions, while the international organization GSMA reports a total of around 7.5 billion devices, including those communicating on a “machine2machine” mode (I have no doubt that “Internet of Everything” will speed up even more these indicator). If on the one hand Man tries to spare his physical effort and annihalate costs and intermediate stages on the pursuing of a task (which could lead us to think there is a tendendy for laziness), on the other hand, we all agree we have become a lot more productive in the past decades, thanks to these tendency of ours to work with less effort, managing time with more efficiency and quality. It reminded me of when I had to send an urgent letter to someone and, from the moment it was sent, I could relax, considering it would only reach its destination after 2 days and the answer ( if the receiver putted it back in the mail in that same day) it would only arrived 4 days after. Today, not only these timings are unthinkable, as also is the fact of not receiving an answer to an urgent email within an hour at most. Fortunately this paradigm is changing and I believe the new generations of professional will prove so. Since the flying chairs of 1930 until the supersonic rithm we work on today, a lot has changed. But the basic principle – the need of being more productive and competitive – is still the same. The major difference is that in those times the solution went through a changing chairs technology , and the prototype constructed by the designers and visionary carpenters seemed perfect!; After almost 100 years, the technological solution is more about renouncing chairs, considering it was found that a major part of the productivity is also associated to the mobility at work, to the capacity of working in a team, without the need for that same team to be at the same place.  The new work models – such as the Virtual Office, the Coworking and the Telework – came to give new worlds to the professionals of modern economy, taking the chance to be called “Flying Workers”. Carlos Gonçalves CEO Avila Business Centers /Avila Coworking and author of the book “Out of the Office”. |
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