Book name: Work, Workers and Workplaces
Author: Parthajeet Sarma
Genre: Non-fiction
Standalone/Series: Standalone
Publishing Date: June 18th 2018
My ratings:
Blurb:
Humans are wired to follow the path of least resistance. If one doesn’t have to do something, he or she will not do it. Technology has enabled humans to work from coffee shops and from home, reducing the need to go to work. The very meaning of work has changed for modern day workers where the workplace is no more a physical space. The new workplace is a blended space of the physical and the digital.
The subconscious mind is like cruise control for humans and shapes behavior. The environment that one is in conditions the mind. At work, the workplace environment conditions quality of thinking. For organizations in a collaboration economy today, productivity depends on the quality of thinking, and not so much on efficiency. The blended workplace is the starting point of innovation for organizations that believe in innovation.
Parthajeet Sarma delves into psychology, human evolution and science to draw connections with greatly changed expectations from work. In his third book, Parthajeet espouses the need for management to get out of codified theories. This facilitates a macro view, leading to a radical new meaning of work, workers and workplaces that is aligned with the organization’s vision for the future.
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MY REVIEW
As kids we have different dreams and just wish to be something more than what we are, want to become astronauts and artists but everyone of us doesn't get to live that childhood dream of ours and end up having 9 to 6 jobs only. If all these people are just working for the sake of working, just to feed themselves and are not motivated to do it except for the fact that they need to earn, then it does affects their productivity and this thing was amazingly explained in this book with various illustrations.The book is divided into three parts through which the author gradually establishes the concept of workers and workplaces in the reader's mind, manifests it's importance in daily life and gives suggestions on how it can be achieved.
This book highlights the importance of having interactive and comfortable places for people to work in, which I think is very essential for any organisation to get the maximum output and also so that life doesn't get monotonous and boring for anyone and instead of making excuses t take a leave people look more forward to coming to their offices instead of staying at their homes.
The author also gives us a brief history of how work and workplaces have changes over the past years with different needs of the workers and developments in various fields and brings out the importance for companies to keep evolving, and making their offices better. The relation of how the productivity of people at their workplaces is actually affected by the surrounding they work in was established by the author very well.In today's era there is a lot of competition between between various companies in throe specific fields, and the only thing that can make an organization are better ideas, which in turn come from the people who work there only. The author highlights the fact that creativity of workers can be called by giving them a free place, where they are free to think, create and innovate.
I really liked the various well-thought examples given by the author to explain and prove his point and I think this book can be quite, if not very, helpful for aspiring or already entrepreneurs and people in HR and management.
