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  • What do laundromat’s, funerals and camp sites have in common?

    ...They’re all great place to work.  A least according to a recent study by Microsoft on the productivity impacts of telecommuting (as I happen to be recently speaking of Microsoft and ‘Great Places to Work)’ … “ Sixty percent of respondents to the...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 08-27-2010

  • European Great Places to Work Double

    As I have commented a number of times, one of my most profound influences spurring me to set up Dynamic Work Ltd. was my experience working at Microsoft . I not only studied, but I had the privilege of living the ‘New World of Work’ as Microsoft earnestly...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 07-17-2010
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  • Dynamic Changes

    Sometimes the dream overwhelms the vision. I have long maintained a vision where people worked more flexibly and dynamically. Dynamic Work Ltd. was a great undertaking to translate that vision into a viable business of helping organisations move in that...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 07-13-2010
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  • Dynamic Work Surfaces

    Dynamic Working can take all forms. It’s not just the digital tools, or human work practices, or work spaces that can be made more flexible and dynamic. The physical tools of desk, chairs, work surfaces, tables and a whole lot more can also be dynamic...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 07-08-2010
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  • World Cup Time Out

    Not all time is created equal. This reality is the problem with conventional time-motion productivity analysis. Perhaps in the 20th century Industrial Age of the assembly line manufacturing plant and paperwork factories and even a simpler, more routine...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 06-23-2010

  • Minimus

    While Dynamic Work can entail flexibility of many forms , one of the most prevalent is ‘ Geographic’ mobility . One of the major constraints to such mobility is simply lugging stuff. If you have heavy tools you depend on, it is sometimes easier...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 06-09-2010
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  • By Royal Proclamation

    With all of the UK election and coalition mayhem sorted, the UK government can now get down to the business. The official starting pistol is the opening of Parliament quite literally crowned by a “ Queen’s Speech ” which sets out the new government’s...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 05-31-2010
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  • The Flexi Decade

    In my introduction to Dynamic Work, I speak of the surging business mega-trend towards flexibility in the current years... “Dynamic Work is becoming as much of a business imperative for the new millennium as was embracing the PC in the 80s and embracing...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 05-24-2010
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  • Management By Sitting Around

    Management By Walking Around’ (MBWO) has been meandering through the corridors of management gurudom for at least as long as I have been in the business these past two decades. Supposedly, it was first introduced by HP founders Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 05-21-2010
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  • Designed for Collaboration

    One of the core objectives of Dynamic Work is to reduce expensive office space. This objective is not because ‘offices’ are inherently ‘bad’...just expensive and often ineffectively used. A simple way to reduce both is to simply...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 05-09-2010

  • Co-Working Across the UK

    My piece ‘ Dynamic Business Centres’ highlighted the surge in availability and diversity of places for people to go and work in and around London. But the innovation and trend doesn’t stop at the M25. Creative workspaces are opening up all around the...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 05-04-2010
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  • The Future of Offices

    Fellow UK work innovation evangelist Katie Ledger forwarded me another gem, this time a piece on ‘The Future of Offices’ by Paul Warner, Chair of the British Council for Offices Urban Affairs Committee and Research Director at 3D Reid. A well composed...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 04-20-2010
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  • Furlough Fridays

    When you start to talk to people about Dynamic Work, people tend to jump to thinking about it as either ‘home working’ or maybe ‘flexi-time’ which are relatively familiar concepts. But actually, those examples only illustrate 2 of the 4 ‘ Flexibility...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 04-13-2010

  • London New Enterprise

    As Dynamic Work evangelises jettisoning fixed office spaces to save money, carbon and productivity, I get two very typical responses... Where do my people go to work then? What do I do with my office space I have then? London New Enterprise has created...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 04-06-2010
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  • Balance Simply #1

    A recent poll in the UK by SimplyHired showed that more staff wanted ‘work/life balance’ (36%) over a ‘competitive salary’ (31%). Also, the #1 vote getter was a ‘a job they love’ at 81% while a ‘pay raise or promotion’ only garnered 10%. The findings...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 03-31-2010
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