Welcome to the future. There will be ankle-biters around during a business call if you work from home. The domestic and the commercial will increasingly overlap. Work has changed drastically since the days when most people made a living from manufacturing. There's more variation in the hours we work, the tasks we undertake and the people we meet.
Fewer employees stay in a job long enough to qualify for a gold watch.
However pressured we might find work, in all but a few jobs the drudgery of doing the same thing day in and day out has gone. Anyone who doubts this observation only needs to look at the number of people who become millionaires by winning the National Lottery, and yet decide to carry on working. The workplace is also set to become more female-friendly, because of the growing emphasis on people skills. Men, on the other hand, have a great deal of difficulty working in such a way. That's their challenge for the future.