https://www.kgw.com/article/news/lo...work/283-c618bc75-5b54-4cd9-a044-9ca3087d57da Portland experts share perspective on what the office will look like when you go back to work KGW's 'What's Next?' series looks at the future of work, technology and innovation in a post-COVID world. Hint: desks, hiring and your boss will all change. For those working from home, or who've been laid off and your industry has collapsed due to the coronavirus pandemic, what will the near-future look like for you, once things open up? We start our new series on KGW Sunrise called 'What's Next? with a look at the how the new office landscape will evolve. Steve Brown is a Portland-based corporate consultant, innovation futurist with 13 years at Intel, and an author whose book The Innovation Ultimatum came out in 2020. We asked Brown to share some predictions for the future of work. Fergus Nolan is a Portland-based business executive with 18 years as a senior director at Nike, now head of IT for Columbia Sportswear. We asked him to reaction to Brown's predictions and talk about what he's noticing first-hand, happening in the business world. Logistics Steve Brown: Most people will spend 3-4 days a week at home and then go into the office when they need to collaborate with other people and strengthen relationships with people they work with. It doesn't mean offices go away. Now maybe we'll reconfigure those offices so that more of the space is given over to collaboration space so people can come together and brainstorm and work on projects. That moment when you run into somebody in the corridor, at the watercooler, in the cafeteria and you go....Oh yes! I meant to talk to you about that thing!' or 'Have you gotten that email from me yet?' All of those little moments of serendipity that is almost the lubrication that helps things move forward...we miss out on those with tools like Zoom and Teams. Fergus Nolan: Prior to COVID, I was a firm believer that to get the most out of individuals, they needed to be in the office, they needed to work collaboratively, needed to be able to access other individuals quickly. My attitude and perspective has completely changed now though. I have just seen people doing amazing things in this new environment. But I don't think it's sustainable (working from home 100% of the time) long term without more of a hybrid approach. A college graduate, or a high school graduate coming into the workforce, I think they're at a disadvantage personally, if they don't have that actual workplace environment to help ground themselves in the culture of the company they're coming into. (CONTINUED.......)
Who Knows What Downtown Portland Is Really Like? The People Working the Cash Registers. "Third-world country. War zone. "It's definitely gotten so you got to watch your back all the time. You've got to grow eyes in all sides of your head. "We had a guy trying to rob an elderly lady. He pulled a machete out and threatened us with it. Then he smashed out the big windows [of the Chevron] with the butt of the machete. The boss said, 'I'm done. I'm just boarding 'em all up.' "Three days later, a dude pulled a butcher knife on me. He just came in and started swinging it around. I said, 'Dude, you can't do that in here.' So he threatened me with it. Then I picked up my baseball bat."
Just a couple city blocks downtown though!!!! https://www.wweek.com/news/2021/02/17/forget-pompeii-is-portland-the-next-detroit/
This article says Portland is likely NOT the next Detroit, by the way. It actually strikes a pretty optimistic tone. EDIT: Not that downtown isn't fucked at the moment. It's a ghost town, or a homeless village, depending on your perspective.
My Portland looks fantastic this afternoon..... first football practice of the season. First soccer practice as well...,.
They've been practicing outdoor sports at Lakeridge for months now. On weekends the kids park all along our front yard causing me concern for when the firetruck has to transport me to the VA emergency room every couple of years or so whenever my wife calls 911. They need room to park their fire truck.
Must be nice to be in an isolated bubble (nicer neighborhood) and just think its that way everywhere but just a couple city blocks Money and privilege... of course schools are going to keep the homeless off their grounds. Of course they are going to quickly clean up vandalism if it happens. Private businesses don't have government fund backing do do those things. i love how some defend portland as not being trashed right now...
Just the possibility is pretty scary though. Combine this with the continual rising housing costs because no new construction is going on, people are paying way over value for homes currently. When the market stabilizes, their loans will be for more than thee value of their homes resulting in little to no equity built up. This is not a good thing for the long term stability of the average family.
Went for nice walk with the THEMRSHCP the other night through the neighborhood. Beautiful evening out. Felt very safe.
So because we live in a neighborhood without cars burning in the streets we live in an "isolated bubble" and have no clue of what's going on around OUR city? Just stay in your utopian village or wherever the fuck you live and don't come into our post apocalyptic waste land. Imagine that, a city with almost 700,000 people and there is crime and a homeless problem. Never saw that coming. Why do you get off researching and finding negative things about a city you don't even live in?
