A highly readable discussion about the forces affecting how, when, and where people get work done – and why they make the choices they do. Many of their 2012 solid predictions (increased flexibility, increased mobility, increased remote work, increased self-management) not only make sense – but have actually come to pass. The post Future Work: How Businesses Can Adapt and Thrive in the New World of Work appeared first on Work and Place ..read more

2022 update of IFMA Foundation's Work on the Move series. Explores the expanding role of FM and leadership associated with delivering workplaces post-pandemic. The post Work On The Move 3 (IFMA Foundation) appeared first on Work and Place ..read more

One of the defining characteristics of the debate about work and workplaces during the pandemic has been the reinvigoration of a couple of ideas about human beings we thought had been put to bed. The first is the idea of people as blank slates, with few or no in-built traits or characteristics, only learned ideas […] The post Beyond The Workplace Zoo-Humanising the Office appeared first on Work and Place ..read more

The radically changing nature of “Work, Workers & Workplaces” – using space as a starting point of innovation The post Work, Workers & Workplaces appeared first on sugar mama dating site in sa ..read more

One of the defining characteristics of the debate about work and workplaces during the pandemic has been the reinvigoration of a couple of ideas about human beings we thought had been put to bed. The first is the idea of people as blank slates, with few or no in-built traits or characteristics, only learned ideas […] The post Beyond The Workplace Zoo-Humanising the Office appeared first on Work and Place ..read more

The global workplace community is in the midst of a revolution of thought and action about how, where, and when work should take place. For all the right reasons, we are in search of how to enable meaningful work from literally any place on earth, in order to create what has quickly become known as […] The post Celebrating the Third Place appeared first on Work and Place ..read more

SMART WORK – The Ultimate Handbook for Remote and Hybrid Teams Published by Bloomsbury Publishing, September 16, 2021 ISBN: 9781472992512 Jo Owen’s bio is impressive, including having “worked with over 100 of the best, and a couple of the worst, organisations on our planet”. A former Partner at Accenture, more recently he founded eight NGOs; […] The post SMART WORK – The Ultimate Handbook for Remote and Hybrid Teams appeared first on Work and Place ..read more

A book that describes how some businesses survived and even thrived in COVID pandemic, what they learned from those experiences, and how they - and their employees - have invented new and highly effective ways of working that lead to vastly improved levels of productivity, profitability, and employee satisfaction. The post Never Going Back: How Covid-19 changed work for good appeared first on Work and Place ..read more

Andrew Laing re-examines the trends he identified in his 2014 W&P article towards dense, collaborative technology-enabled urban workplaces or ‘work-scapes’. He argues that the post-pandemic workplace will reinforce those pre-existing trends but will, nevertheless, result in stronger preferences for certain kind of building types and urban areas. Four scales of impacts are explored: the shift to home working; changes to the office workplace; changes to building types; and the evolution of the urban ‘work-scape’. Cities will continue to provide unmatched value as workplaces but our ways of ..read more

Review by Dr. Jim Ware, Work&Place, San Francisco, April 2021 Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere by Harvard Business School Professor Tsedal Neeley (Harper Collins, 2021), “If you need to know how to leverage the new world of distributed work, read this book. It is written for practitioners with easy-to-grasp analyses and, more importantly, common-sense […] The post Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere appeared first on Work and Place ..read more