Author and blogger Polly Labarre thinks so. 
And she's got the stats and the studies that prove her point.
Here's the best part of her recent post about the new emerging business climate among entrepreneurs and existing businesses:
"The really interesting shift isn’t from one profession to the next, but from one way of thinking about the arc of a career and working life in general to the next. It goes something like this:
Old version: work hard (for a very long time), achieve success, earn freedom (to retire and do all the things you missed out on while you were working)
New version: find work that affords you freedom = success
I would argue that the organizations and leaders that find a way to build freedom (freedom from the time clock, freedom from the cube, freedom from the org chart, freedom to create) into work will be the winners in the future. Freedom is a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control; freedom is about what you can unleash. And, increasingly, freedom isn’t something you pay your dues to earn so much as a basic human right of all working adults. Sounds pretty obvious, but most organizations today would have to go to drastic extremes to make that a reality. And some are."
Thanks to Seth Godin for pointing us to this thought-provoking treatice on how the workplace is changing, and what it means for today's entrepreneur.
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