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Introduction

In: The Worldwide Workplace

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  • Mike Johnson

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The century that began on 1 January 2000 has already carved out a name to define itself — the Century of Uncertainty. Indeed, if you look at the collective headlines of the world’s media, you could on a bad day be forgiven for thinking that the four horsemen of the Apocalypse (conquest, war, famine and death) had really taken over our planet. Conflict and natural disasters seem to dominate, closely followed by crashing financial markets and seemingly unending and unsolvable economic, social and environmental woes. Putting it simply — it’s very easy to get depressed at the state of our world. Nothing, it would seem, is going quite the way we’d like it. We are constantly (and almost gleefully) informed that we are increasingly obese, face increasing costs in taxation and energy bills, have produced children who will struggle to find any kind of economic balance, while our planet gets warmer and the natural world shrivels up around us as a consequence of our massive population growth.

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  • Mike Johnson, 2014. "Introduction," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Worldwide Workplace, pages 1-3, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-36127-1_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137361271_1
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