Fujiko Suda: Worklife

Work­ing ONLY from home though can have an iso­lat­ing effect that is not always too much fun. NWFu­sion has an inter­est­ing arti­cle on how entre­pre­neurs are cre­at­ing “third places” to work, that take what you like best about work­ing at home and com­bine it with what you like best about work­ing in the office.

Links are good aren’t they:
http://www.nwfusion.com/net.worker/columnists/2004/0614kistner.html

Woa!! Two com­ments in a row for one entry. Thank you Shashank. Before I for­get, I had din­ner with FX Palo Alto Lab Senior Research Sci­en­tist, and one the first thing she said to me was, I really enjoyed read­ing your pro­file, espe­cialy the line that said “not let­ting edu­ca­tion get in her way”. Well, that was the line you added for me!

Back to your com­ment. Yes, it gets lonely very fast when one works only out of their home. I did this for a lim­ited time in 1987 and again in 1996. But you know, a lot of house­wives with small chil­dren feels lonely, because they prac­ti­cally work only out of their home.

Howard Schultz talks about the third place in his book, Pour Your Heart Into It and Ray Old­en­burg cov­ers the topic very well in the book, The Great Good Place. Social and psy­cho­log­i­cal fac­tors are enourmous.

Thank you for the link to NWFusion!