Free Agent Nation: How Americans New Independent Workers Are Transforming the Way We Live by Daniel H. Pink

Author:Daniel H. Pink [PINK, DANIEL H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Business & Economics, BUS025000, Entrepreneurship
ISBN: 9780759522312
Google: akhQbqnG0hYC
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2001-04-26T21:10:46+00:00

THE BOX

CHAPTER 9

THE CRUX: An economic infrastructure has emerged to provide a foundation for free agents’ work. Composed of copy and printing shops, coffee shops, bookstores, executive suites, the Internet, office supply superstores, postal service centers, and overnight delivery services, this new infrastructure has two defining attributes. First, it is self-organized rather than centrally planned. Second, the infrastructure serves a fundamentally social role by creating a variety of “Third Places” where independent workers can come together.

THE FACTOID: By 2002, home offices will spend $10.2 billion on Internet access.

THE QUOTE: “Everybody knows that Starbucks serves a decent, if pricey, cup of coffee. But what far fewer people realize is that Starbucks is not in the retail beverage industry. It’s really in the commercial real estate business. For me, and for many other independent workers, these coffeehouses have become free agent office centers.”

THE WORD:Feee agent infrastructure. The physical foundation on which the free agent economy operates. The infrastructure is self-organized and composed of private establishments.

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