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Unhappy and indebted workers

Ed Frauenheim writes over on the C|Net Workplace Blog:

The American worker today: more disgruntled, deeper in debt.

At least that's the portrait that emerges from a couple of recent reports. The first, an essay by consultant Tony DiRomualdo, discusses a conference titled the World Congress on the Future of Work. The prevailing view of attendees at this April forum was that the workplace is not a better and more fulfilling place than it was 10 years ago, he writes.

"Today, the majority of workers still go to offices every day even though information and communications technology increasingly allows them to work from anywhere," DiRomualdo says. "They still work in facilities that are designed to minimize operating costs and preserve hierarchy and status, not inspire creativity and fuel collaboration among workers."

posted by Fergie @ 5/17/2005 04:10:00 PM