Out of Context: We Built the Future of Work. It Doesn't Work.

The future of work is here. It doesn't work.In 2015, Thorsten Fuchs wrote the bestseller Out of Office, celebrating digital transformation and the new world of work. A decade later, he has a confession: We got it catastrophically wrong.Modern workplaces promised flexibility, purpose, and engagement. Instead, they delivered exhaustion, meaninglessness, and organizational paralysis. From "context collapse" in endless Slack channels to flat hierarchies that create chaos instead of creativity, every organization broke the same way.But there's hope.Drawing on mathematical theory, systems thinking, and the surprising wisdom of Klaus Brandl—a Bavarian brewmaster whose 400-year-old brewery runs better than any modern startup—this book reveals why removing boundaries erased meaning and how to rebuild what actually works.Inside you'll discover: Why "best practices" became worst outcomes The mathematical laws explaining organizational failure How to escape meeting hell and digital overwhelm Why Klaus the brewmaster sees what McKinsey misses Tools for Monday morning, not manifestos P.S. The appendices contain category theory (seriously) Dr. Thorsten Fuchs (former Microsoft executive) and Anna-Sophie Fuchs (underwater archaeologist turned organizational diagnostician) combine confession, diagnosis, and reconstruction in a book that's both brutally honest about what went wrong and unexpectedly hopeful about what comes next.If you're exhausted by transformation theater and ready for actual solutions, your reconstruction starts here.