Organizations of all types will probably not find many comfort zones in the years ahead. A confluence of disruptive forces will transform work and working in the next 10 years, most of them involving globalisation. But globalisation would not be possible without information and communications technology. The sensory-expanding, media-saturated "global village" that futurist Marshall McLuhan first envisaged in the early 1960s has arrived in the form of the Internet and the web. Many workplaces, especially in the developed countries, are turning into physically and temporally dislocated collaborative environments facilitated by digital communications. With the borders of time and space disappearing, markets are attenuating and economies are merging, even as economic centers are disaggregating. Terms such as "multinational," "localization," and even "outsourcing" are losing their original meanings as organizations - companies, but also entities such as nongovernment organizations and industry groups - not only cross but also transcend traditional socioeconomic and political boundaries.