Our mission is to develop, share and promote best practice in implementing Smart Working, in order to maximise the benefits to individuals, organisations, society and the environment.

Why are we needed?

• There has been an upsurge in interest in smarter ways of working – in particular remote working – during the pandemic.
• But for many organisations, the response has been reactive and tactical. Now there is a strong need to adopt Smart Working in more strategic and holistic ways.
• It’s particularly important that modernisation creates ‘good work’ and great places to work, wherever people are working
• Implementing Smart Working requires coordinated action across disciplines – People, Workplace & Technology – which can be challenging.
• The Network provides a way for those leading change to share experience and best practice, and prevent organisations from reinventing the wheel.

How the Network works

The Network is free to join for people in eligible organisations. That’s organisations with 100+ employees that are implementing Smart Working, or intending to do so. It’s not a network for selling or trying to gain work.

The network has frequent meetings per year, showcasing what members have been doing, exchanging knowledge, and exploring specific topics of interest. It is free to members to attend meetings. We have both closed meetings for members to discuss work-in-progress, and open meetings. Meetings focus on case studies of implementations, thought leadership (e.g. interviews with authors), research summaries and explorations of specific topics. Meetings are currently virtual.

Members also have access to a secure area in this website with discussion forum, special articles, etc, and receive periodic emails with news updates.

It is supported by the voluntary efforts of a small group of people (see below) and a small number of funders to cover essential costs, like the website.

Our supporters

We are very grateful for support from the following organisations. These are all committed to sharing information and new ideas around new ways of working and best practice for modern workplaces.

Saint-Gobain Ecophon are specialists in workplace acoustics. As well as providing products and solutions for acoustics, Ecophon has a commitment to research and to sharing best practice. Ecophon has a global team who focus on gaining new knowledge in workplace acoustics and how it affects us, either by conducting their own studies and research projects, or by monitoring and collating research done by others. Members can access some of their pioneering research, e.g. on psychoacoustics, in the Resources section (login needed)

Ecophon produces the Acoustic Bulletin which provides a global platform where end users, architects and acousticians can access knowledge, opinions and solutions for room acoustic design.