New Work Archives - Marcus Raitner

The Post-Pandemic Office as a Place of Inspirational Encounter

Marcus Raitner — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 19:29:51 +0000

Now that we have experienced that knowledge-work is possible anywhere, our offices hopefully evolve into creative places for inspiring encounters between people.

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The Home Office: What It’s Really All About

Marcus Raitner — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 04:15:00 +0000

Home office is in fact only at first glance a question of where you work. In essence, it is about equality, about concepts of human nature, trust instead of control, and fundamentally about the relationship between manager and knowledge worker.

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The Transformation Devours Its Children

Marcus Raitner — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 12:52:03 +0000

COVID-19 is a touchstone for agility and new work. The crisis reveals the true culture of the organization unvarnished. Quite a few beanbags and foosball tables now turn out to be "lipstick on the pig", a naive cargo cult at best and the deliberate deception of a Potemkin village at worst.

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The Myth of Short Ways

Marcus Raitner — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 04:15:00 +0000

Spatial proximity allows short ways and efficient coordination. This narrative of the cult of presence sounds plausible, but it is not true—especially not in large organizations.

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Expanding the Digital Radius of Action Instead of Worshipping Physical Presence

Marcus Raitner — Fri, 29 May 2020 09:36:32 +0000

Instead of calling for presence again after this long phase of forced distributed work, now would be the perfect time to decouple the employees' radius of action from their physical presence and to consistently expand it into virtual space.

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Blog Parade #remoteworks

Marcus Raitner — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 04:15:00 +0000

After weeks of distributed cooperation it is time to draw a balance. This blog parade is itself an exercise in distributed asynchronous collaboration, a virtual retrospective to reflect on the opportunities and limitations of home office and remote work, in order to identify success factors and prevent us from falling back into the old rut.

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Less Rules – Better Cooperation

Marcus Raitner — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 05:15:00 +0000

How many rules does cooperation require? Less is more. For instance in traffic, as Hans Monderman's concept of shared space shows. But also in organizations: fewer rules lead to more responsibility and lively cooperation.

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Here I am human, here I may be curious!

Marcus Raitner — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 08:01:13 +0000

Digitalization is driving human labor out of the value chain. It only continues what robots and automation have begun long before. You can feel threatened by this, but…

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Work-Life Balance: Differentiate Without Separating

Marcus Raitner — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:00:35 +0000

Never I have been a devotee of the concept of work-life balance. It suggests a separation that I am not willing to accept. If something has lost its…

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The Uncomfortable Truth About Open-Plan Offices

Marcus Raitner — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 13:08:10 +0000

While trying to do concentrated work amidst colleagues on the phone or in discussions, I regularly wish to return to the quiet library from my student days. With…

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