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The bigger they are, the harder they toil. That’s the finding of a recent study into workplace practices by Microsoft UK’s ‘Hybrid Organisation’ initiative . “The study revealed that even though the majority of office workers want to work more flexibly...
Yesterday, I met with fellow Microsoft alum Andrew Munro with whom I had endured extensive trench warfare on the frontlines at Microsoft. He has set up a consultancy, Burning Pine , which helps organisations to “ navigate the future; exploring the unmapped...
...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...
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...
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...
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...
Accenture and Vodafone collaborated on a report titled ‘ Carbon Connections’ which looked at a range of business strategies for carbon reduction. Given Vodafone’s mobility focus, the report naturally centred on a number of distributed and remote working...
MSNBC featured a fine piece titled “ Chatty Workers Are Best Telecommuters ” (thanks Dr. Bret ) with a delightfully colourful introduction... “For years the workplace commentariat has been nattering about the no-collar workplace. Companies will hire brains...
I have been supporting the Working Families organisation for a number of years as a ‘ Changemaker’ member. The mission of the organisation is so completely aligned with particularly the social benefits of Dynamic Work. The group “ helps children, working...
The benefits to Dynamic Work are economic, ecological and social. One area of business that affects all three is transportation. Commuting and business travel cost money, cost carbon (and other environmental impacts) and cost time away from family. Showing...
The Microsoft Netherlands joint research piece with Erasmus University also cited the seminal work of Thomas W. Malone Robert J. Laubacher’s coining the term E-Lance Economy over 10 years ago in their Harvard Business Review article, ‘ The Dawn of the...
One of the strongest points to the Microsoft New World of Work approach is its recognition of the diversity of work places, work roles, and workers themselves. The Microsoft Netherlands joint research piece with Erasmus University laid out a helpful grid...
Executive summary from a recent joint research project between Microsoft and the World Wildlife Fund on the benefits of ‘regularly working outside the office’ which itself contains some of the headline findings and stats... Despite the apparent benefits...
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...
The Transport Studies Unit at the University of Oxford has released a study on “ The Costs of Transport on the Environment – The Role of Teleworking in Reducing Carbon Emissions ” which looks comprehensively at empirical macro-economic data on workers...
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