Business Case for Change: The Evidence is Mounting
Source: The Impact of Office Design on Business Performance, British Council of Offices, 2006
_Changing work practices delivers an 8-fold gain compared to investing in smart building design or green IT initiatives!! Source: Mandate for Change by John Blackwell and Associates in Workplace Effectiveness News, July 2010
_Pro-active, problem-avoidance workplace ergonomics strategy can deliver a 1% increase in productivity and displace the ‘additional cost’ of green building Source: Green Ergonomics, Prof Alan Hedge Cornell University 2008
The New Priorities for Workplace Relocation and Design Optimising Business Performance and Productivity Key Factors Encouraging Relocation and Redesign g Improve Business Performance
Key Attributes Maximise staff health and wellbeing: _Provide good environmental performance _Provide Provide natural light to most of the floor plate
Promote knowledge transfer: _Provide significant informal, communal space for staff _Provide areas for privacy
Provide for flexible work styles: _Easily transformed to support changing needs _Flexible lease terms
Source: extract from Colliers International Tenancy Survey 2010
New Workplace Models: Agility- based
Office –centric model: Non-territorial working g Includes... HOTDESKING Hotelling Quiet rooms Communal/Team spaces ...The beginnings off Activity-based workingg y _hybrid hybrid environment _trust-based management _performance-based working _shared shared amenity and spaces ...including third spaces
Looks the same...but acts differently!
Networked office model: Distributed working h many names... has Activity-based working Smart working Agile working Free range working Flexible working Teleworking
Home working
Next Workplace Model: Self-organising, Cross-fertilising Spaces
Last Decade:
Next Decade:
_Connection
_Community/Authenticity/Meaning
_Transparency
_Creativity and value creation
_Collaboration
_ Virtual teams and environs
_Flexibility
_Self‐organising systems
_Workstyles Workstyles
_Attraction and retention Attraction and retention
_More with less
_Measuring productivity
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