Information careers in the office of the future

In several guises, the Office of the Future (OOF) is upon us. Apart from the obvious economic and managerial challenges engendered by the importation of communication and data-processing technology into the office, there will be a longer-term trend towards the reshaping of jobs and job structures, particularly as these relate to information-handling tasks. This paper is an attempt to define opportunities, to prognosticate trends and to lay out a plan of action for forecasting individual careers in an office slightly automated now and increasingly automated in the future.