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Our realistic but gloomy predictions for 2025!
Happy New Year! Here are our somewhat doom-laden predictions for the world of work and more in 2025 – but with some positive undercurrents nonetheless!
Videos and Podcasts – Flexibility in Sound and Vision
Here we have selected videos and audio featuring issues and ideas in the the worlds of flexible working, transforming workplaces, and the future of work.
It’s the Autonomy, Stupid! 6 reasons to avoid heavy-handed RTO mandates
Amazon has been much in the news for its sudden requirement to get everybody “back to the office” for five days per week. Actually, they
How Smart is Hybrid Working? Workplace Geeks podcast with Andy Lake
In April 2024, Andy Lake spoke with Ian Ellison and Chris Moriarty of the renowned Workplace Geeks podcast, with further commentary from Dan Wakelin. Now
The right to disconnect – what could be wrong with that?
We all need to be able to switch off from work and have the control we seek between work and the rest of life. So
How productive and sustainable is flexible working? The research [Video]
For his recently published book, Beyond Hybrid Working, Andy Lake has dived into the research on the impacts of flexible working – in particular ‘remote
The ABC of Smart and Flexible Working – our helpful Glossary of terms
Here is our (occasionaly opinionated!) glossary of terms commonly used in the worlds of Smart and Flexible Working, including in some cases an explanation of
The book to help you move Beyond Hybrid Working
By Andy Lake Since 2020, we have seen an acceleration of trends that span more than 30 years. These include the rise of flexible working,
Smart Working Handbook – 3rd edition
It’s time to take a strategic approach to flexible and hybrid working – and make them smarter! That’s the message of the new edition of
Four ways to address flexibility for hands-on and site-specific workers
Or, “What about the workers?” In all the debate about remote/hybrid working, the future of offices and the future of work, it’s often forgotten that
Flexibility News in Brief
We’re reviving our digest of news about Flexible Working, Smart Working and all things connected. And we add in a little opinion here and there
30 years at the forefront of insight on Flexible and Smart Working
It’s been my privilege to have seen, over the course of nearly 30 years, flexible working move from a dubious workplace eccentricity to mainstream acceptance.
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Check out our insights and thought leadership in the world of Smart Working, based on more than 25 years of implementation and research
Take a look forward into the future evolution of work – higher levels of location-independent work, automation, AI and robotics – and all the impacts
Find out about the range of services and resources we can provide to take forward your thinking and implement programmes of Smart Working
We’ve been reporting on the world of flexible/smart/agile work since 1993. Here we dip into the archive for a selection of the best insights
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