It’s been front page news all week. “Global Cyberattack,” “Ransomware Attacks,” “Digital Insecurity Is the New Normal.” This week’s world-wide cyberattack by the Shadow Brokers infected computers in over 150 countries with ransomware. The message is, “We are out here and we want your data and...

Videoconferencing has been around since the mid-1980s. However, until recently, getting hooked up was not a simple feat. It required dedicated digital lines, expensive video equipment, and specially designed conference rooms. As a result, videoconferencing tended to be reserved for large,...

There is a decade-long trend of collaborative workspaces designed to support mobile work, and a growing proportion of the workforce is as comfortable working in a corner coffee shop or airport waiting area as they are in a physical office. Yet I still routinely encounter managers who view ...

The Washington, DC Metro system typically carries 700,000 weekday passengers, making it the second busiest rail system in the nation. As a result of a recent station fire, Metro announced a complete shutdown of the system during the weekday commute on Wednesday, March 16, 2016, to undergo an...

Recently, I wrote Going, Going, Gone! The Vanishing Company Office and proudly described my home office as an example of the trend toward greater workforce mobility. Shortly after writing the article, however, I read a Chicago Tribune piece titled: Those Days You Work from Home May End up...