Working 9 to 5 is obsolete, says Microsoft | APC Magazine
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- Claire on 2006-10-30 - Tags anthropology , change , culture , habits , it , social , technology , work
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I think the whole point is that there's a cultural change going on. And it's not really a complete change because if you remember back to the 9 to 5 job, you're still placing calls to the doctor because you can't call [the surgery] after 5 pm, because it’s closed.
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I have been in Germany where I watched this whole office going ‘ding ding ding ding' with their friends because they were using e-mail as IM because they were not allowed to have IM up
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because if you block access, particularly in IT companies, staff find workarounds.
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we think of calendaring as an information place, and we always split communication versus information, but in fact, they're a blurred thing, calendaring is very much a communication tool,
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