The employee wakes up a few hours before their personal work start time. At the predetermined time, the tinted windows would lose their tint to reveal the morning light, with the audio system turning on the news, sports talk or music, with both of these systems gently ramping up. Get in the shower, warm water turns on automatically, get out and the bathroom mirror reminds you to brush your teeth and floss. Once you complete the task, you mark it so on the mirror. Further, the bathroom mirror notifies you that you’re low on shampoo, asking if you’d like to order some: a few choices are shown, and you add your usual to the cart. Go out to the kitchen and you tap breakfast on the screen, mark what you want to prepare and for who you want to prepare. Ingredients, recipes and nutritional values pop up and then show up on the screen on the counter-top. As you finish preparing, the system notices that you’re low on eggs and asks if you’d like to add it to your cart, so you do. As you’re eating breakfast and watching the show you missed last night, a notification pops up, telling you that you need to leave in 20 minutes to get to work. You finish up breakfast, check up on the kids, dress for work and pack clothes for the gym. As you leave your home, your phone notifies you of how many calories you’ve eaten and burned (according to your tracking bracelet) and shows you your calendar and tasks for the day. You walk a short distance to the Personal Transportation System Loop.

You get into your Personal Transportation System (PTS) Pod. You place your phone on a wireless charging pad and it automatically connects with the Pod. The PTS Pod recognizes you and automatically directs you to work, the next item on your schedule. As the Pod begins to move, the heads up display informs you that it’ll take about 7 minutes to get to work and shows your calendar for the day and also asks what’d you like to do, showing a few items you frequently choose to do & other recommendations (a book you’re reading, the TV show you were watching during breakfast, a newscast, some articles you’ve queued, etc). Suddenly, a notification pops up, informing you of a meeting in an hour and the tasks to complete for the meeting, which includes a memo detailing the reason for the meeting. Shortly thereafter, you receive notification that you’ll arrive at work in one minute.

You arrive at work and start your 3 hour shift. 45 minutes before your shift ends, you receive a menu asking you to pick your lunch. Today is your assigned “eat-with-a-coworker” day, meaning you’ll be paired with three random coworkers for lunch. You finish your morning shift and head to the assigned lunch room to meet with your coworkers. The system knows when everyone is arriving, so the food arrives in the chute right before the last person arrives. Everyone places their phones on charging pads on the lunch table: this checks them in, so they receive credit for attending the luncheon, but the system also accesses the social networks of all four co-workers and finds similar interests and formulates potential questions that the group can then discuss. Today, the CTO happened to be at the table, and so part of the discussion turns to the direction of the company. At the end of the lunch, contact information is automatically shared between participating co-workers.

Toward the end of lunch, everyone gets notification of their next destination and their nutritional values consumed so far that day: your next destination is the gym for a personal training session. You arrive at the gym with your training clothes and head to the locker room. The front desk has training clothes (if you forget yours) and towels are in the locker room. It’s recommended that you use the towels at the gym. You key a locker with a NFC bracelet, change into your clothes and lock it. You got there a little early, so you enter a pod and finish the show you had been watching. Then you head to the training area and meet your trainer for your group circuit training session (groups limited to 4) and go through the workout for an hour. Afterwards, you head to the locker room. At the locker room, you find a laundry bag, key it with your NFC bracelet, put your dirty clothes in and drop it off in a chute for dirty laundry (throwing your towel in separately as well) and then hit the showers. The shower recognizes you through your NFC bracelet and remembers your preferred shower settings (including water temperature, type of shampoo, conditioner and soap) and changes the cartridges and water temperature according to your current settings. After the shower, you change back into your work clothes and head back to work.

You get back to work and work your 2nd 3 hour shift. At the end of the day, a notification pops up telling you to go pick up your kids from school. Your spouse requests your nutritional information for the day, so he/she can figure out the recommended serving size for dinner (doing the same for the kids). You pick up your kids from school and on the way back, use the 4 person pod for the ride back home.

Once you get back home (~8 hours since you left the house in the morning), you notice in the communal box (a box that’s inside the home by the front door that can be slid out by the corporate deliverers) a shampoo refill, eggs and the laundry from the gym. You eat dinner and then relax while the kids do homework. After the kids finish their homework, you take your kids out to the nearby playground. Your area houses those with kids at similar ages, so your kids find their school friends and play. You socialize with the other parents. You take the kids home and still have four hours till your normal bedtime. You tell your kids to read before the family watches their favorite show in another hour. After the show is over, it’s your kid’s bed time, so you get them ready for bed and tuck them in bed. You still have 2 hours left till your own bedtime.

Normally, you would read, but you and your spouse receive an invitation from a close friend near by for a night bike ride and you guys decide to go. You guys special order a four person leisure pod (w/ some wine) and meet your friends at the PTS station. There, the leisure pod is waiting, locked to your NFC bracelet. It’s a twenty minute ride to the bike path, so everyone enjoys the wine and each other’s company. They arrive at the bike path and pick out bikes from the whole array stationed there. You ask your phone for a 45 minute leisure ride and it begins navigation. After the ride, you return home, get ready for bed, check up on the kids, read through a summary of the day (including nutritional values), read a book and then fall asleep.

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Though this may seem futuristic, I believe most of the tech described here is already available. It’s just about putting it all together. And it doesn’t really describe what happens in the actual workplace, but just about what a corporation could provide for their employees, outside of normal business hours, helping their employees to live more peaceful lives.