Andy Lake interviewed by Marcus Bowen for the Work & Place Podcast, about his article on The Emerging Social Infrastructure of Work and Why the Workplace Industry Needs to Think Outside Its Ever-Shrinking Boxes.
Summary
The world of work is changing fast, with an unprecedented take-up of ‘remote working’ accelerating pre-existing trends to decentralised working. However, the workplace industry, planners and residential developers alike seem to be captive to an Industrial Age mindset that still sees the separation of work from the rest of life as the norm.
In an article for Work & Place*, the leading journal for the workplace industry, Andy Lake explores the range of trends from homeworking during the pandemic to Industry 4.0 that mean we need a transformational approach to designing and supporting all the places where people work, and an end to the exclusive – and intrinsically conservative – focus on the collective workplace.
In the podcast, Marcus Bowen interviews Andy about the thinking behind the article.
You can access the podcast on Soundcloud here.
Download the Work & Place article from our Resources section.
And you can also watch a short video that goes with the podcast on YouTube.
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