Employees Will Revolt?
August 30, 2007
Ad agency Crayon made it into a recent segment of World News Tonight about “virtual” offices along with Accenture and IBM. Yeah, yeah… the media has been trotting out this story repeatedly over the last few years, but Crayon’s CEO Joesph Jaffe had this to say on his blog, “Building the workplace of the future isn’t PR spin. It’s a commitment. We strongly feel that there is a revolution-a-coming and “employees” are going to revolt against companies who control and restrict their web access time, visit virtual worlds, ability to upload and/or download, share, blog and/or podcast. Perhaps that’s why so many people want to work at crayon!”
We can’t actually imagine this impending revolt, but we are charmed by his vision of the future.
August 30, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Jaffe loves the sound of his own voice.
It’s why he’s successful- he takes extreme positions and runs with them.
Traditional agency people think he’s a joke, but he’s got a legion of tech-heads who think that he’s God.
His agency is all about planning and consultancy though, it’s not about creative.
August 30, 2007 at 11:28 pm
berries and cream!
August 30, 2007 at 11:37 pm
I love it how the reporter speaks of ‘cyberspace’. Very 1999,
i’m gonna go dust of my floppy disks.
September 1, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Fools of a feather flock together.
IBM has a couple of years left before it folds. Angry customers and wasting money on new adventures like Second Life.
Cringley reports that they’re planning layoffs of 100,000 in the near term because they’ve gotten so uncompetitive. So I think “virtual offices” are right up there with the Newton.
September 2, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Thanks for picking this up…
anonymous – appreciate your synopsis. I would hope I lie somewhere between joke and God, but I’ll take what I can get.
JJ
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