Supervisor's Survival Kit: Your First Step into Management, Ninth Edition

TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES NOW IN THEIR INFANCY

Alvin Toffler, in his book The Third Wave, develops the concept of the electronic cottage. At some distant time, he predicts, most employees will work in their own homes, where electronic equipment will permit instant communication with and directions from a central management source. Teachers will teach from their homes. Production workers will use sophisticated equipment to produce parts for a company miles away. Commuting to factories, skyscrapers, and other workplaces will be a thing of the past for many. People who live together will work together.

The electronic cottage may or may not become a reality, ...