The World Is Your Office

In recent years, companies in a wide range of industries have adopted radically flexible work policies that allow employees and teams to work from anywhere (WFA), untethered to a physical office. The leaders at these companies understand that geographic flexibility is a competitive advantage: a way to attract and retain high-quality and diverse talent at a global scale. If other companies want to find and keep the very best talent, they must embrace WFA.

In The World Is Your Office, Harvard Business School professor Prithwiraj Choudhury takes readers inside the companies at the forefront of this growing phenomenon—from startups to bigger, more traditional organizations—while offering leaders a playbook for implementing a variety of WFA policies they can tailor to their own needs. This includes:

• Using WFA as a means of hiring and retaining the best talent in your field
• Best practices for meeting the challenges of managing a WFA team or workforce, including ways to build community, improve communication, and share knowledge
• Understanding how AI and automation are extending WFA to manufacturing and other deskless settings
• Case studies of companies that have implemented WFA to great effect

Filled with smart insights and in-depth examples, and inspired by a decade''s worth of pioneering research, The World is Your Office will help leaders attract superior talent, boost innovation, and improve productivity and diversity.

About the Author

Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury is a globally recognized expert on the future of work, serving on the faculties of both the Wharton School and Harvard Business School for over a decade. His research focuses on management practices and technologies that support work-from-anywhere and hybrid work arrangements and how companies, communities, and countries are competing for remote workers. In 2023 Forbes included him in its Future of Work 50 list, and in 2024 he was included in Time magazine's Charter 30 list of thought leaders shaping the future of work. His research has been cited by the BBC, CNBC, Freakonomics, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, among others.