The solution to our sense of personal dislocation is not to focus on the fracturing of our work experience but rather on the philosophy and principles that have always been important to our work and organisation.

We induct new starters into the mystic rites of our workplaces. We treat them as lost innocents requiring special knowledge of processes and relationships to fill a place in the machinery of work. 

The word disruption is losing all meaning through indiscriminate overuse. This is particularly true for the phrase ‘digital disruption’. It is also becoming true for the phrase ‘future of work’, which maps out disruptive forces impacting the workforce and organisation.

A lot is being written about the future of work. Not a lot of it is interesting or challenging. It should be, but it’s not.

As with all new technology, the underlying concern is: do we know what we are losing?