Work To Live Or Live To Work?

Parents could benefit from work place revolution

People may be forced to work from home in the future due to a combination of green taxation and high oil prices, which means that traveling to the office is no longer feasible according to a new Orange Future Enterprise Coalition report. There may not even be an office at all as the spiraling expense of city centre offices means businesses can no longer justify a central workplace.

Parents, especially mothers, will benefit from this home-work revolution, as they will be as eligible and available as anyone else to work on projects from the comfort of their living rooms. Having a baby will no longer be a barrier to mothers from enjoying a fulfilling career.

However this home workforce will create knock-on problems, particularly regarding employment law. The principal issue will be that working regulations and working conditions for employees dispersed across the country and in their own homes will be hard to enforce.

If working from home goes out of fashion then companies are likely to play safe and get back to basics. Businesses will be forced to crack down on employees and draw clear lines between work and personal time, meaning people will not be able to use the office to organise their private lives. Many people will find hard to adapt to these stricter rules that mean they are no longer able to access personal emails or IT at work. The worker backlash from this scenario means companies should be braced for a high turnover of staff. Even those who are extremely mobile (couriers, repair men, high-level consultants) follow schedules designating where they have to be, and when.

For more on how our working lives are to change listen to Charles Leadbetter, one of the world’s leading authorities on innovation and creativity in organisations and Robert Ainger founder member of Orange Future Enterprise Coalition as they share their views on future ways of working by clicking on http://www.podmaster.co.uk/podcast.php?ID=40

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