The division between home and office melts away with the designers' prophetic recognition of how technology will reshape work habits and environments.
And yet in the long term, the same forces which have reshaped work habits there are likely to have similar effects in many other places.
We may yet be forced to reshape work and, in the process, revalue what is among the most precious of all commodities – our free time.
The Socialist government is engaged in a difficult "social dialogue" with companies and unions to reshape work rules, ease entry into the labor market and make French companies more competitive by gradually shifting the cost of social benefits.
The culmination of this work is Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter (Harvard, 2010).
Civil rights advocates point to Trump's statements during the campaign as evidence that he plans to take the Justice Department in a different direction, reshaping the work of the 400-attorney civil rights division.
A recent study by Kathleen Gerson, professor of sociology at New York University and author of " The Unfinished Revolution:How a New Generation is Reshaping Family, Work, and Gender in America" found the number to be 27percentt.
America is changing through population aging, reshaping family, work, retirement, and societal engagement, which will fundamentally alter the landscape starting with Boomers and then to Gen Xers, Millennials, and those beyond.
In her new book, "Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter," Joan C. Williams describes how men find themselves caught between meeting cultural expectations and a growing dissatisfaction with the constricted roles shaped by those expectations.
Joan Williams is the author of Reshaping the Work-Family Debate and Unbending Gender.
