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The latest edition of the Future of Work newsletter came to my Inbox last night, and as usual it is full of good stuff. Get over to the Future of Work website and subscribe.

This month we’re looking at several “what could be” scenarios - what if communities actively designed themselves to be attractive to talented knowledge workers? What if we took “being green” seriously?

And the Feature Article: What Attracts Knowledge Workers To A Community?

by Charlie Grantham and Jim Ware

The challenge facing every community and region today is how to adapt to the new global economy that depends on knowledge, creativity, and innovation. It is becoming increasingly clear that the key to a thriving innovation-based economy is talent - knowledge workers and professionals. The emerging economic development paradigm focuses on making a region attractive to knowledge workers, in the well-founded belief that an area that attracts talented people will generate enough jobs to keep them there - and will develop a strong regional economy based on their wants and needs (See “Market Segmentation and Development for Remote Work Centers” by James Ware and Charles Grantham, WIRED Working Paper, January, 2007, for a broader discussion of this new economic development paradigm).

Knowledge workers are the engine of the information- and innovation-based economy…

This newsletter is a must read. The blog also has links to great resources like this:

And for an even more fundamental review of the real basics of setting up a home office, check out “The Bare Essentials of Telecommuting” by Rob Witham.