The future of work is here.
Some weeks ago, Fujitsu, the Japanese multinational, announced plans to allow it’s 80000 staff to work from home permanently. A project dubbed work-life-shift geared towards innovation and flexibility while killing the “office culture.” Reported to reduce 50% of office time, allowing people in the countryside to tend their other needs. It’s the new standard, border-less offices, and remote work. Fujitsu is not the only company with work from home plans; I’m convinced others are on the fence to see how it all pans out; the Japanese are well known to live in the future anyway. It’s the future of work, and it’s the dawn of another era, and far from it, something more intriguing is lurking around.
An excerpt from History
Humans have always devised the best means of putting in more work with limited human resources from time immemorial. The early days’ farmers relied heavily on human resources, a man with the highest number of human hands stands a better chance of becoming wealthier than his peers. I believe this was one of the reasons our ancestors had more children they could ever need. It was all purely human resources to get more people to do the work. Even in today’s poorer countries where we have countless subsistence farmers, more hands still mean more outputs. Meanwhile, not long ago, my grandmother almost had twelve children, virtually because a couple of them died perinatally, and left with eight. They…
