NWoW is no April Fool!

The New Way of Working or as I abbreviate it: NWoW is not a joke.
The old way of working is however still a real yoke.

In the postindustrial society we suffer from mental drag and still cling on to industrial solutions a lot. We do things the way we have always done, just because we have always done them. For instance we step into our car at say 7.30 in the morning and work our way through traffic to arrive at 9 AM in our office. For something that is outside traffic hours a 30 minute drive. And what do we do once we are there?

We take coffee and open our laptop and start working on ... mail. And then some document editing for the project we are working on. We could have done that at 8.00 in the morning at home, wait until the congested roads are wide open again and then take that 30 minute drive at 10 AM to arrive at 10.30 AM. We have would have gained an hour. 30 minutes of company time productivity and 30 minutes of personal quality time.

But we don't do that. Why not? Because we are used to arrive at the office at 9AM. No matter what traffic. No matter if we actually need to be in the office at 9AM. We do it, because we have always done it. We blame the traffic and we feel helpless victims of circumstances we cannot change.

Sigh.... we really, really need NWoW.