Behind the eight ball of productivity in the enterprise

摘要

Columnist Charles Whaley has written about the reversal of "technology dispersion flow" from corporate-to-consumer to consumer-to-corporate off and on for several years now, but hadn't anticipated how rapidly and thoroughly this would become a fact of life. Employees are consumers too, and if, as consumers, they are early adopters of innovative new technologies and find them valuable, they are going to want to bring them to work so that they can increase their productivity there as well. Let's hope that the day doesn't come when workers have to leave some of their creativity, effectiveness, efficiency and innovativeness at home, just because their employers can't provide or at least accept the use of state-of-the art tools that will foster corporate productivity.