Work - Portal vs. Place

We've spent a year now becoming adept at being remote from our workplaces and closer to our communities. A year that has accelerated what was already happening and accelerated by the exigencies of Covid-19.

"Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colours. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving." Terry Pratchett Hatful of Sky

Coming back to where we started, many of us see, and importantly, feel things differently.

Over the last quarter-century, technology has given organisations the ability snd freedom to globalise. To deconstruct and move their components, from manufacturing to back-office staff, to wherever logic dictated to minimise costs and maximise efficiency. They have become virtual organisations. Along the way, the impact made the places they dispersed from work-based communities became ghost towns and commuter villages.

At the same…