I spend more and more time at home or in my car doing business.
Now the workplace can be at home or in an automobile. Duties change depending on customer requirements of the moment.
Work is no longer constrained by time and place. For example, work geography is changing dramatically and quickly. Your workplace was once the office tower or plant site. Physical and legal limits defined business, team, and plant boundaries. Most communication was face-to-face. In just a few years, the workplace has become global and virtual.
Many corporate environments such as operations, maintenance, security, and information services never sleep. Microsoft employees, commonly work 60 or more hours a week and work 90 or more hours a week prior to a software launch. People are always available to handle customer concerns, not what we’d think are life or death situations.
Nevertheless, how would you feel if you came to work and discovered you no longer had the same office, cubicle, or even desk? In some companies, no office and no desk means you’ve been outsourced or whatever is the current euphemism for being fired.
Life Lesson Earned: Your office is not your job. Your job is not your career. Your career is not your work. Your work is not your calling.