Schlagwort-Archive: Employees

Forget YOUR Office

In near future, we always work where we are. That can be at home, in the hotel, being on the way at the airport, in the train or in the coffee shop around the corner. Besides the technical pre-requisites, the new mobility requires employees, who are ready to admit themselves nomadically for such an open working environment.

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Of course, there will be still the locations with the facilities. The employees, however, accomplish their tasks no longer at the one desk, but mobile, where ever they are. This results in new tasks within the administration. The desks are assigned to an employee for a specific duration, since fixed workspaces would usually remain empty. At the same time, more and more temporary, individual workspaces as well as meeting spaces are locally needed. This affects for example the IT, the facility planning and the corporate guidelines. They have to prepare the IT-systems, the industrial safety and the security as well as the company agreements with the workers’ council for the new, mobile work situation.

The enterprises save already 30% of the office space costs through office hoteling. You reserve the workspaces in a virtual reception along the way. Based on the reservation, the devices are provided to the employees locally – computers, printers, and consumables. Additionally the users have mobile devices that can be securely connected everywhere to the data and electricity net. The technical problems are solved via a 24-hour hotline. Flexible service providers replace very quickly the device everywhere in the world.

Bottom line: On the one hand, the staff will have to face more and more small- and large-scale mobility. On the other hand, the companies have to spend money, in order to create pro-actively the necessary basis.

P.S.: 2021: The Corna pandemic showed how it works.

Growth happens at the expense of others

Growth evolves in enterprises towards the one, determining key figure. All efforts serve only to increase profit, revenue, market shares, and productivity. The system is part of an environment, has defined borders and exchanges energy with other systems. Within the system, the subsystems also exchange energy.

Where does the energy for growth actually come from?

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Examples of systems are:

  • Living organisms that need food;
  • Machines that require fuel;
  • River systems that swell with tributary rivers and rains;
  • Families that become larger through offspring;
  • Enterprises that expand.

In principle, any growth is created by adding energy from the outside. Creatures have their energy through wining and dining. If food is missing for a long time, the organism dies. The car that is not refueled stops. As soon as creeks and other rivers dry up and the rain is absent, a river drains. Families without descendants become extinct. Enterprises enlarge by opening up new markets, by pushing competitors out of the market or by purchasing enterprises. Within the system, the energy likewise shifts, i.e. gets rearranged. Thereby individual subsystems grow. However, the total energy of the system does not increase. The reallocation even leads to a loss of energy that results from the efforts for the change.

In the enterprise, this shift of energy appears in many places.

  • With the takeover of enterprises the revenue, the profits, the market penetration, the procurement volume and the number of employees grow at the expense of the related investments and the employees that do not ‘survive’ the fusion.
  • The reorganization of processes costs the energy of the change efforts and the employees, who are loosing their tasks.
  • New technologies come from the outside and produce drain of energy in the form of cash flow. Beyond that, the employees again pay part of the bill with the loss of their tasks, either if they are transferred or dismissed.

Bottom line: For growth, you need energy form outside. Any growth happens at the expense of others. Internal growth yield no results to the overall system, because energy moves only from the right into the left pocket or gets simply lost through the efforts.