Fred Hoch and Terry Howerton (left), cofounders of TechNexus. When you’re young, it’s natural to think of grown ups as party-spoiling bores. But wait a few years until you’re a fellow adult and that uncool elder brother or once sedate seeming older cousin suddenly becomes fascinating and fun loving. Adults generally aren’t stodgy to other […]

Tech is allowing teams to be more flexible, hiring folks from far away, sourcing talent for project-based work online and letting team members work from home, a coworking space or wherever will help them be the most productive on any given day. Will our physical office spaces follow suit, developing an analogous level of flexibility […]

The teams at Rally Software and Getty Images demonstrate the kind of business relationship that is possible, and likely necessary, to be a success in business today. Theirs is a story of co-creation. Rally is an agile project and program management technology and services company. The stock photography organization, Getty Images, needed to bring their business goals […]

Companies and employees are finding unique ways to work in a world supported by mobile Internet access. We’re seeing growth in coworking, and telecommuting in general, and Needle is a great example just how far you can push these ideas. Needle provides client companies with the tools and people to link product experts, or fans […]

Working remotely, for all its benefits, is pretty universally acknowledged to be isolating. Without water cooler chat and random encounters in the hall, the conventional wisdom goes, telecommuters inevitably feel less bonded with their teams and may even suffer loneliness (this is one of the most powerful arguments for coworking after all). A proposition this […]

Who exactly works remotely these days? For years some jobs have been associated with dialing in from a distance. Writers, sales reps and childcare workers have been working from home since long before the tech advances that made the practice an option for many more professions. Do these stalwarts of remote working still make up […]

It’s not often you hear this, but: One of the most elegant apps for Android is now available on iOS. The app is called Any.DO and it’s one of the best looking task managers I’ve used on any platform. When it first arrived for Android devices, I thought I was looking at an iOS app […]

The case for telecommuting is solid and gets more so with each new study. Here’s one from just this week showing long commutes are correlated with bad heart health, for example. But despite this large and growing pile of evidence in favor of the practice, the increasing technological feasibility of many desk jobs going virtual […]