Bertrand Duperrin's Library tagged workingenvironment → View Popular, Search in Google

Oct

2011

Revolution in work within next decade?

"Alison Maitland, a Senior Visiting Fellow at Cass Business School says that a revolution in work that will see many employees decide when, where and how they do their jobs could be as little as a decade away. "

www.hrbullets.co.uk/...n-work-within-next-decade.html

- Preview

work humanresources productivity flexibility ROWE workingenvironment workhours management leadership casestudies GAP

The book comes off the back of overwhelming evidence that employees are more productive if they have greater autonomy over where, when and how they work
This could see the traditional 9-5 working day disappear and be replaced with a model that rewards people by performance and results, rather than hours worked and presence in the office.
4 more annotation(s)...
- The first is that it requires leadership from the top of the organisation. You also need to treat it as a business strategy. Then you have to measure people on performance and output.
- People are held accountable for what they achieve rather than how much time they spend on a project or where they work
- A study of 24,000 IBM staff worldwide found that those with flexible working could work an extra 19 hours a week before experiencing the same levels of stress and health issues as those without it.
- n the Netherlands, Microsoft has designed its building near Schiphol airport for a world in which work is independent of time and location. It’s primarily made up of different spaces for meeting, with just a few stations for concentrated work.

Dec

2010

Enterprise 2.0 report from Ericsson - "Digital natives coming to work" |

"The report is also focusing a lot on the challenges organizations face when new tools and new people are entering from the outside world. I have written before on the fun of working and I continue to argue that this will be one of the most important challenges for organizations in the near future. Make your working environment attractive or go bankrupt.

It is also my strong belief that a higher percentage of digital natives will demand new ways (and tools) of working than the so called digital immigrants."

www.incentivecorp.com/digital-natives-coming-to-work

- Preview

digitalnatives generationy ericsson report management fun workingenvironment