Published Online:September 2024
Product Name:The IUP Journal of Effective Executive
Product Type:Article
Product Code:EE050924
Author Name:Kai-Alexander Schlevogt
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Subject/Domain:Management
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Pages:32
The “Great Reset” agenda, an integral accelerator of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, aimed at leveraging the fluidity of the global Covid-19 pandemic to enforce lasting fundamental changes to capitalism on a worldwide scale. One part of this agenda, which had been proposed by the World Economic Forum, was a radical redesign of work, with a strong emphasis on digitally empowered remote labor schemes. Yet after permitting liberal and apparently permanent teleworking arrangements during the pandemic, various organizational leaders, in the process of completing their context-setting “meta-work”, are increasingly whipping their staff back to the post-pandemic physical workspace. The new “Inverted Office Power Pyramid” model distills the fundamental granular forces driving the seemingly unstoppable return-to-office megacycle trend after a prolonged period of work from home. This first part of a pioneering research series on the future of work by the author focuses on the top two layers of the four-level framework, i.e., the organizational economic and behavioral economic levels
The Center for the History of the Russian Diplomatic Service, a Moscow-based museum, proudly guards a mysterious gift, which the then-Secretary of State of the United States, Hillary Clinton, handed over to her Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, during a meeting in Geneva in 2009.