Newminimalists work wherever they need to not in a designated workplace.
One critical lesson you must learn from the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic is that "there is no such thing as the workplace".
Indeed there are a multitude of places, platforms, locations, and situations that you and your colleagues rely upon when you get down to work. Plumbers know this because they often go to a different place each and everyday. The truth is that many of you have been isolated from your 2019 workplace for the first half of 2020. And. You may never get to go back to the place of work you had last year.
Take the simple example of the Ryanair Boeing 737-800 [see photo] when it is flying it is a platform for work for many professions. The crew treat it as a familiar platform, as does the journalist who is writing an article on his or her flight, or the video blogger who is recording content on this particular flight, etc. But due to the impact of the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic the places that you use to work are no longer accessible. For example, there are rows and rows of Ryanair 737-800 aircraft parked on the ground because fewer and fewer people are flying on this platform. In addition, the physical platform that people relied upon to supply airport services to the travelling public are closed; and, here is the rub, these airport workers are not able to do online what they did in 2019. The airport platform for workers has been shutdown just as the Ryanair fleet has been parked and abandon on airport runways everywhere. When these airports reopen as the platform for launching and landing aircraft [such as the Ryanair 737-800] the configuration of services will be vastly different to what we have seen before [some services will go online, some will be automated, and some will become luxury additions to the travel experience].
For months now I have been suggesting that most post-2020 work will be done online, in abandoned city malls, on iPhones [linked to 5G and Starlink respectively], etc. The nature of work will remain the same [meeting the needs of others for a fee or for free]. The locations where you and your friends work will be smaller than ever before [the backroom in a house where you produce video content or entertainment, etc]. Thus many of the professions that were location specific [airline pilots] will face less and less demand. However the platforms where you can exchange your skills or talents for money, gold, bitcoin, icons, etc will be ubiquitous.
The first of you to shuck-off the mindset that work is done in "a workplace" will succeed in the post-2020 economy. You will see opportunities to provide your unique skills and talents to meet other peoples' needs.
Richard
The platform I use to provide a free and a for fee service to meet your needs can be accessed at minimal-you.com
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