Hybrid Working in the Tech Sector
Have you ever played a game that has no rules or guidelines? No matter how open-ended a game is, it …
Have you ever played a game that has no rules or guidelines? No matter how open-ended a game is, it …
How Businesses Can Help Staff Reduce Both Their Costs and Carbon Emissions Businesses in Europe and the US are becoming …
How cohesive is your team? Do you know each other as people? Do you know what each other knows – …
Organisations work hard to create and sustain a great culture. Many leaders that I speak with who are contemplating a …
Even with a very blinkered viewpoint, we are all aware of the large-scale changes taking place in the post-pandemic world …
Trust is needed wherever and whenever we work with other people. It’s a short cut, another mechanism our brains use …
Since the start of the pandemic, two years ago this month, management skills have been firmly put under the spotlight. …
Hybrid working is changing the world of work for the better. It’s giving employees a better work life balance and …
As we start to emerge from the pandemic, it’s clear that the way we work will never be the same …
US historian and founder of the field of Leadership Studies, James Macgregor, identified two distinct types of leaders: the first, …
In many of our other hybrid working blog posts, we’ve talked about the ways hybrid leaders can adapt themselves to leading in …
Starting a new job can be overwhelming at the best of times. We can often feel that we lack both the information we …
Having spent well over a year trialing various types of remote and hybrid working, leaders and workers alike are now …
In discussing the likely form of the post-Covid and hybrid workplace, it is tempting to go straight to the interior …
While most people’s experiences with virtual and hybrid working have been extremely positive due to the many benefits of hybrid …
One of the unforeseen side-effects of the Covid pandemic has been the creation of the largest remote working experiment ever …
Written by Sofia Fonseca de Nino, Senior Associate (Houston, U.S). If you searched online how to make the perfect paella …
Written by Celeste Tell, Senior Associate. I was always really good at math. I could get solid B’s without much …
Written by Philippa Hale, Senior Associate, Advanced Workplace Associates. Being a virtual leader in a hybrid working world, in some …
Written by Fran Ferrone, Senior Associate I was late getting to the office. Not literally – but because for the …
Written by Karen Plum, Director of Research and Development, AWA While waiting to be interviewed on a BBC Radio show …
Written by Lisa Whited, Senior Associate AWA Given these choices, which of these six ways would you choose to work …
Given the challenges facing organizations working hard to determine what their future ‘normal’ will look like, there has never been …
A year ago, the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic. Whilst some leaders are hoping to return to the …
Written by AWA Director of Research and Development, Karen Plum. I once heard a stand-up comedian tell his TV studio …
This article on Managing Conflict was written by AWA’s Director of Research and Development, Karen Plum. In recent months, I’ve …
Written by Karen Plum, Director of Research & Development and Tanisha Krishnan, Associate, AWA During this strange Covid-19 year, much …
In March 2020 most of the world’s office based knoweldge workers went home to work. There was no change management …
Written by Karen Plum, Director of Research and Development, AWA A couple of years ago, I wrote about cognitive bias, …
For several decades, work and the workplace design has been evolving. It has been enabled by information technology and driven by economics and …
Written by Karen Plum, Director of Research and Development. In 2018, I blogged about the role of personality in team …
Written by Karen Plum, Director of Research and Development Throughout my career in workplace change management, I’ve met many managers …
Written by Karen Plum, Director of Research & Development, AWA In early September, I was a guest on BBC Radio London’s Drivetime show. Presenter Eddie …
Written by Karen Plum, Director of Research and Development When researching the practices that make teams most productive, team empowerment …
Written by Karen Plum, Director of Research and Development If we thought that the debate about home working was lively …
Written by Karen Plum, Director of Research & Development, AWA On Friday 17 July, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced …
Written by Karen Plum, Director of Research & Development, AWA At the end of July, I was a guest on …
It seems a long time ago that Climate Change was our number one source of anxiety. Since the Covid-19 pandemic …
Neuroscience tells us that the brain is wired for safety. Its primary function is to keep us alive – striving …
Inspired by lots of pieces that I’ve read since the COVID-19 lock down happened, I wanted to share AWA’s experience …
It hardly seems any time at all since Covid-19 took us where many feared to tread. So many organisations have …
The meteoric spread of the Covid-19 virus has caused us to re-examine almost every facet of our lives including, how …
This capability is concerned with day to day management of resources needed to deliver effective workplaces. Resource Management covers physical …
In thinking about some of the terrific new workplaces on view during AWA’s annual Workplace Week New York this past …
Change management is a popular topic – put it into Amazon and you get over 50k hits. There’s no shortage …
In this fast paced, increasingly digital workplace world, the desire to reinvent our workplaces and workforces to intersect the latest …
Quite simply, a Workplace Utilisation Study is a vital piece of “evidence” when building a persuasive and convincing case for …
Capacity Management is probably one of the most important parts of Workplace Management because capacity costs money, it often comes …
I was recently asked to write a blog on how to implement activity based working (ABW) / agile working. I …
Every workplace transformation project I have ever worked on involved the compilation of a series of Frequently Asked Questions – …
In our posts to date we’ve talked about workplace experiences, clients, consumers and strategy. These are key ideas in the …
Having recently finished a series of blogs about Workplace Change Management, I was asked to write a blog or two …
Supply Chain Management covers the entire Supply Chain life-cycle from strategic policies and plans, the selection of suppliers of all …
“Never let a good crisis go to waste!“ Attributed to Winston Churchill upon the formation of the United Nations, it’s sentiment still resonates …
In the previous Blogs, we’ve talked about Workplace Management organisations considering themselves as businesses within businesses. Here, we’re going to …
In the previous blog we started out by talking about the Workplace Management function as a sort of business within …
Change doesn’t happen because someone sends an e-mail. To build an organization for change requires extensive preparation and change management …
Imagine if you were running your own business delivering excellent workplace experience to your client’s and consumers in the organisation …
Is your organization looking to refocus the business and possibly reduce it’s workforce? Office downsizing is a smart alternative that …
Institutions are changing their names, large corporations are recruiting Chief Experience Officers and Chief Workplace Officers and in the world …
Change Management Series – Chapter 8 A lot is written about change management, and I have enjoyed writing this series …
Change Management Series – Chapter 7 Anyone that understands human behaviour, or has ever tried to form a new habit, …
Change Management Series – Chapter 6 The very simple answer to this question lies in knowing why so many change …
On the 12th February 2019, along with five other organisations, we launched a new centre for workplace excellence in the …
A few years ago, I wrote about change management saying, “change management is like anchovies: everyone says they hate them, …
Change Management Series – Chapter 5 A theme through this series of blogs about workplace change management is resistance. For …
Relocation and Innovation Series – Chapter 1 For many years, decisions about office relocations were made purely based on location, …
Change Management Series – Chapter 4 If you’ve been following this series about change, then hopefully you appreciate that workplace …
Change Management Series – Chapter 3 Implementing workplace change is rarely straightforward and takes a lot of effort – but …
You’ve probably guessed by now that I’m a fan of the open plan office design. (Not apologizing, just sayin’ – …
When Advanced Workplace Associates invited New York Real Estate executives to weigh in on the May 2018 Harvard Business Review …
Change Management Series – Chapter 2 There are many things said about change – that it is hard, that “everyone …
Don’t let the Cart drive the Horse The chief criticism of the Harvard Business Review study on the open plan …
Change Management Series – Chapter 1 We live in a world that is constantly changing – the pace of change …
Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) hosted a dinner/discussion at Fonda del Sol in New York on October 4th to continue the …
To conclude our series of blogs on Managing the Agile Workforce, it seems appropriate to summarise the skills, attributes and …
To conclude our series of blogs on Managing the Agile Workforce, it seems appropriate to summarise the skills, attributes and …
Over the past few months, we have shared the findings from our research into the Management of the Agile Workforce. …
Over the last few months, we have shared a number of aspects that our research showed were important to the …
It is interesting how ideas can spread. Some happen rapidly when something new goes viral on social networks. Other ideas …
Some years ago, we undertook some research about the productivity of knowledge workers – and how it could be measured. …
When a new piece of research hits the workplace community, you know pretty quickly as everyone starts talking about it, …
When undertaking our research about the agile workforce, most of the factors that emerged as important were not a huge …
If you are following this blog series on Managing the Agile Workforce, hopefully you’ll be actively considering the issues raised, …
It was no surprise to find from our research on Managing the Agile Workforce that relationships are of key importance …
When undertaking our research about managing the agile workforce, it became clear (not surprisingly) that there is a clear relationship …
In identifying aspects that are important to the success of the agile workforce (teams that aren’t co-located or spend some …
Change is happening all around us at an exponential rate – this is not news. All we have to do …
When starting our research into the agile workforce, it was important to be clear about terminology. What counts as an …
In recent years, Advanced Workplace Associates have supported the professional development of ‘workplace’ leaders through our Workplace Performance Innovation Network …
This is National Conversation Week 2018 – when we’re encouraged to talk to friends, family, even strangers because conversation is …
Flexible working… this is a term that has many meanings and all of which seem to be used simultaneously within …
In our previous blogs we described the first three steps to ensuring Performance measures are aligned with workplace strategy. Step …
The Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) team have investigated what is required to achieve maximum workplace productivity. Our leading research in …
In our last blog we explored the importance of trust at work. This time we look at 4 ways to …
The Difficulties of Workplace Performance Measures The Christmas break offers the opportunity to read children’s stories to grandchildren and this …
I was talking to a colleague the other day and we were discussing the need and drive of generating social …
A few years ago, Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) were involved in a research project that looked at the productivity of …
“We already have loads of measures that take lots of effort to gather data on and which result in very …
Put simply, space planning is the process of designing how occupants will use a given space. For workspace design, this …