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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...
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...
One of the major areas of benefit from Dynamic Working, along with saving money and helping the environment , is boosting staff welfare . The most direct benefits involve increased satisfaction , work/life balance , and reduced time lost to commuting...
I was describing the concepts behind ‘Dynamic Work’ at an event last week and one of the attendees described it as an ‘anti-neutron bomb.’ The ‘ neutron bomb’ was a concept floated in the seventies as a military weapon which killed people, but left buildings...
Dynamic Work saves economic, ecological as well as social costs, and one dimension of those savings in two areas (economic, social) are the health benefits to flexible working. The Times covered a study on this topic with a number of personal profiles...
Microsoft has been pushing the boundaries of flexible working for years now obviously leaning heavily on the empowerment that mobile, productivity and collaboration software enable. Last year I highlighted some of the measures that the UK office had introduced...
A number of megatrends are all converging to drive this move out of concentrated workplaces towards more distributed work. All of these drivers are centred on preserving key and increasingly precious assets to the global economy. Energy Assets: Peak Oil...