In my column last week, we looked at the significant, indeed in some ways radical, shifts occurring in the world of work. Fueled mostly (albeit not entirely) by technology, the decoupling of work from a desk at an office means that we are now free to work anywhere, anytime – for good and ill.

That we all work when, where and how we want is not news, of course. Neither is it news that the not-so-great recession transformed work and business, too. Large corporations realized that they didn't need to keep all those full-time employees with the attendant healthcare costs and other benefits when they could get most of what they wanted by hiring part-timers and independent contractors.

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