Stowe Boyd: The future of work: four trends for 2014

*I can never read stuff like this without being thrilled that I lack a job.

http://research.gigaom.com/2013/12/the-future-of-work-4-trends-for-2014/

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“The consumerization of work

“One trend that has recently upended the business world has been the adoption of consumer technologies — and their architectures and user experience — either directly into business use or as a forcing function leading to redesign and replacement of older hardware and software.

“This has been most obvious with regard to the adoption of companion devices like smartphones and tablets in the enterprise. This Bring Your Own Device phenomenon offers companies the possibility of real cost savings on purchase and provisioning of “computications” tools. But it also terrifies the risk-averse IT staff of most firms.

“I wrote earlier this year that this trend might better be called Bring Your Own Mind, since we become so dependent on the companion tools we use that leaving them at home would be something like a lobotomy…”