There were always more people available who could do it than were allowed to do it by their management. And that's always been the case - Jack Nilles
The first project, insurance company. I asked what they were worried about, and they said, we have to hire basically a third of our workforce every year. And we'd really like to cut that down. I said we can help you severely reduce it. - Jack Nilles
The employees did not have to get in their cars and clog the freeway. They could walk, ride their bicycle, to this local, satellite center, do their work there, a mini computer collected all the information and transmitted it overnight. We always had enough technology for people to do their work. Lots, lots of people - Jack Nilles
------------
Development of Policy on the Telecommunications-Transportation Tradeoff
Trading communications for commuting, to the benefit of the company, employees, and the environment in which they live.
And even after the benefits we clearly demonstrated in research and pilot projects, cultural resistance to change remains the biggest barrier to trial, even 50 years later.
Please join me in welcoming Jack Nilles to Work 20XX
After two decades working on Top Secret optical projects for the Air Force and NASA, Jack was called out by an Urban Planner in Santa Barbara. 'If you can put a man on the moon, why don't you do something about traffic?!'
Fifty years of fighting inertia, Covid provided the multi-year work-from-x validation to Jack's hypothesis once and for all. I was thrilled beyond belief when Jack accepted my invitation. Ninety-one years young, still actively blogging and posting on the topic, what a treat to hear the story of how all this got started.
Jack Nilles: Telecommuting, Tradeoffs, Resistance, Incentives | Work 20XX podcast with Jeff Frick
- YouTube -
- Spotify -
- Transcript and Show notes - https://www.work20xx.com/episode/jack-nilles-telecommuting-tradeoffs-resistance-incentives-work-20xx-podcast-with-jeff-frick-ep25 - or wherever you podcast
#Leadership #Telecommuting #Tradeoffs #Resistance #Incentives #Management #Behavior #Organizations #Companies #Bandwidth #Change #Flexibility #Digital #Distributed #EmployeeEngagement #FoW #FutureOfWork #Hybrid #Interview #JackNilles #Innovation #JALA #Challenges #Culture #Remote #RtO #FoW #FutureOfWork #Technology #USC #Workplace #Podcast #Work20XX
