Is the emergence of ‘hybrid’ work from the pandemic an opportunity missed for organisations and employees? Covid showed us we can adapt, change and learn new things quickly: New tools integrated into daily routines – VC meetings, Teams etc, cloud apps; New workplace – home, but even more than before our laptop became our mobile, […]
Peter Drucker first observed in a 1992 essay for Harvard Business Review that our great transformation to a society of knowledge workers would be completed by 2010 or 2020. Unfortunately organisations still struggle to optimise performance by recognising and enabling the key requirements of knowledge work laid out by Drucker 25 years ago: Our multi-sourced […]
A short series attempting to decode hybrid workplace jargon to foster a more nuanced discussion on future work capabilities, workstyles and workplace in a post-pandemic world. Part 3 “C is for Collaboration” describes the importance of understanding the wide range of collaborative activities and specifically what valuable collaboration means for you. Collaboration is Not One […]
A short series attempting to decode hybrid workplace jargon to foster a more nuanced discussion on future work capabilities, workstyles and workplace in a post-pandemic world. Part 2 “B is for Behaviour” focuses on need for purposeful design to support value-adding Future of Work (FOW) behaviours and capabilities. How vs Where Work Should be […]
Office or home? Which is more productive? If you’re Jamie Dimon (CEO of JP Morgan), James Gorman (Chief Executive of Morgan Stanley), Tim Clark (CEO f Apple), Andy Jassey (incoming Amazon CEO) or a number of other prominent CEO’s, you firmly believe employees are most productive when they are in the office together[1]. However if […]
The Wrong Debate! A recently published paper describing the results of an academic study by Ethan S. Bernstein and Stephen Turban[1], both of Harvard, has become another unwarranted casualty of the debate on ‘open plan’ offices versus anything else. The researchers conducted two controlled studies in different organisations before and after a workplace refurbishment from […]
Want an office like Google? Think again! Copycat offices don’t work any more than copycat cultures do! The open plan office versus closed debate rages on, and rather than running out of steam in the face of evidence and reasoned argument by many industry thought-leaders, it seems to have nine lives! New Tech offices seem […]
The pros and cons of “ABW” (or “hotdesking” or “remote-working”) should recognise the diversity of contexts, applications and outcomes