Higher Office
by Claire Cain Miller

Upstart Jive Software aims to change the way people work by bringing social networking to the office. It’s up against some firm called Microsoft.

Jive Software chief executive David Hersh has a lofty goal: a world where office work is so fulfilling, inspiring and free of trivialities that parodies like Dilbert and The Office cease to exist.

There are loftier goals–ending genocide, famine, cancer–but Hersh’s is a good fight, and you can make a lot of money helping companies get themselves out of those endless e-mail chains and pointless meetings of office work. Jive’s software uses the Web to do that.

“People live in e-mail and documents no one else can see. We’re changing the way companies work,” says Hersh.

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