Future of Work
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!
09/12/2024
Future of Work
Spotlight on emerging and future trends in the world of work
Expertise
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.
23/11/2024
Future of Work
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
04/09/2023
Future of Work
What’s in store for the flexible world of work in 2023?
The Flexibility predictions for 2023 and beyond One of my maxims in writing about the future of work is, “The future is always plural and
03/01/2023
Future of Work
How to Make the Future Work – Book review
Review of ‘How the Future Works’ by Brian Elliott, Sheela Subramanian & Helen Kupp While many organisations are debating the “return to the office”, hybrid
15/07/2022
Future of Work
How flexible is a four-day week?
The 4-day week is not a single animal, and some versions of it are smarter and more flexible than others. Here we explore the concept,
15/02/2022
Future of Work
Where are you on the Unreconstructed-Hybrid-Flexible-Smart Maturity scale?
We are living in a time of both uncertainty and innovation, both for the nature of work and the future of the workplace. Some commentators
24/01/2022
Future of Work
Why the Workplace industry should think outside its ever-shrinking boxes!
Andy Lake interviewed by Marcus Bowen for the Work & Place Podcast, about his article on The Emerging Social Infrastructure of Work and Why the
23/04/2021
Future of Work
Rethinking public policy to embrace 21st century working
This is the third of three linked articles examining the implications of the emerging world of work and the need to harness potential benefits from
07/02/2021
Future of Work
What are homes for in the 21st century?
This is the second in a series of 3 posts on the rethinking the place of work in society, and how many of the assumptions
16/11/2020
Future of Work
Rethinking the social infrastructure of work after the pandemic
What kind of houses should we build when home is also the workplace? Over the past few years there has been a constant stream of
16/11/2020