People work intensely, under great pressure, but their relations to others remain curiously superficial. This is not a world in which getting deeply involved with other people makes much sense in the long run. It appears in three forms. The most self-evident is physical attachment to the city. Rates of geographic mobility are very high for flexible workers.
Temps are the single fastest-growing sector of the labour market.
In the higher reaches of the economy, executives frequently moved as much in the past as they do in the present. It is just that thread which the new workplace breaks. Some specialists in urban studies have argued that, for this elite, style of life in the city matters more than their jobs, with certain zones gentrified, filled with sleek restaurants and specialised services replacing the corporation as an anchor. The second expression of the new capitalism is the standardisation of the environment. People might become too attached to their offices.