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The more I speak to people active in workplace and work-practice innovation, all fingers point to the Netherlands as the hotbed of the most advanced and leading edge work in this area. That is certainly the case in the Microsoft organisation. ...
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 just won the #1 spot in the 2009 Europe’s Great Places to Work survey . President Jean Philippe Courtois called out a number of New World of Work initiatives that really showcased Microsoft’s exploitation of technology to enable dramatically...
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...
One of the observations Edelman’s Robert Phillips notes is the segmentation into different workstyles. He speaks of the ‘podists’ and the ‘benchists’ describing sub-groups that have formed based on personal preferences for where and how they work. The...
An essential component to Dynamic Work is applying the principles of dynamism to the workplace itself. Much as there is too much wasted office space (lit, powered, air conditions, secured) and time in centralised offices, ‘the office’ can...
Speaking of partners, whitepapers and workstyles, BT has published a sterling case study on its own Flexible Working web site called ‘ Sustainability through Flexible working - BT Workstyle’ . “Happier BT people are enjoying a better work life balance...
The emerging realisation of business benefits to flexible work is being touted by one of the champions of emerging businesses, Dragons Den’s James Caan in last month’s Sunday Times piece titled “ Technology is the key to cutting your overheads ”. The...
One of the aspects that enthuses me about the area of ‘Dynamic Work’ working at Microsoft is that it is an area where we not only have so much to offer in the way of empowering technology, but we have long strongly practiced what I am preaching here....
A little while back The Sunday Times did great piece on remote and flexible working: “ Home is just the job for workers ” (subtitled ‘ A growing number of companies are adopting more flexible employment practices for their staff ”) It highlighted the...
I presented at a senior management board for a major investment bank on mobile technology a few years back. Part way through, the CIO interrupted and started my critique for being out of touch with the realities of their business and the requirements...