Review of Andy Lake's book titled BEYOND HYBRID WORKING – A Smarter & Transformational Approach to Flexible Working, published by Routledge (2024) by Paul Carder. The post BEYOND HYBRID WORKING – A Smarter & Transformational Approach to Flexible Working appeared first on Work and Place ..read more

Improving the workspace experience costs money! If you are connected to corporate office space, you will be familiar with the dilemma driven conversation about how to improve the workspace and the need to find the funds for those improvements. At its simplest this is a zero-sum game – you save money by reducing space in […] The post Common characteristics of the Workspace transformation game appeared first on Work and Place ..read more

My original intention was to write a quick blog to raise awareness of the upcoming Workplace Trends event in London on 18 October, strapline ‘The Office as a Desired Destination’. Work&Place are media partners.  But as is the way of these things, it’s turned into a ‘continuing professional development’ day spent reading around the event’s […] The post The Office as a Desired Destination: Workplace Trends, London, 18 October 2023 appeared first on Work and Place ..read more

ONA research findings spanning the pre and post Covid period based on a large population from a single company gives insights into human capital development for workspace strategists.  The post 550 employee group pre/post COVID Organisation Network Analysis Study 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 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 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