The Workplace Trends autumn conference in October 2024 takes as its theme "Exploring The User Experience, Employee and Community Engagement, Space Utilisation, Productivity and Wellbeing at Work". Workplace is in…
We have kept the Smart Work Network free to join for people rolling out smart/flexible/agile work in their organisations. So to keep the show on the road, we rely on…
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Fireside chat with with Esther Sternberg M.D, Author of Well at Work, and Philip Vanhoutte, Co-Founder of the European Smart Work Network. Since the start of the millennium intense scientific…
How are organisations responding to the emerging world of work? And what should they be doing? How about the office workplace - what do we need it for, and if…
By Andy Lake Since 2020, we have seen an acceleration of trends that span more than 30 years. These include the rise of flexible working, new office design and new…
The Smart Working Handbook is the authoritative summary guide to implementing a strategic and integrated approach to Smart Working. It has been used by thousands of people to support their workplace…
Here's our selection of the best reads relating to Smart Working and the changes needed to working practices and culture, property and technology, with some insights too into the future…
The November session of the Network looked at the ways organisations are adapting to new ways of working. We explored the key questions of how to know what settings are…
In this guest post Mark Catchlove, Leader of MillerKnoll's Insight Group, reflects on the new realities for the workplace, and the need to focus on supporting choice, flexibility and adaptability…
Annie Leeson, CEO of AgriCarbon and co-founder of Leesman Index, talks to Philip Vanhoutte about her use of time and place to maximise flexibility, productivity and wellbeing. Annie is an…
The prospect of a 4-day week has been in the news recently, with companies and governments adopting or exploring the concept. The pandemic has also prompted reflection on how, where…
The experience of Covid and the aspiration of employees to have more control over where and when they work has led to a complete rethinking of the workplace at Grupa…
Humans are not designed to spend all their time indoors. And especially we’re not well-designed for spending most of the time sitting down. So it makes sense to get out…
The current moment offers great opportunities for rethinking the workplace, as well as rethinking how we work overall. If offices are to be part of the mix, what can be…
There has been a succession of surveys during the pandemic showing that people working from home are more productive than when they work in an office. Or at least, feel…
One organisation that has adopted a very proactive approach to the opportunities from remote working is Cimpress. Cimpress is the parent company of a dozen international companies, the best known…
Creating smart, sustainable and healthy workplaces, using the new ISO standard for acoustic excellence in open-plan environments, and new communications formats for live events were the topics for our July…
New ways of working require new approaches to leadership – and that was the focus of our September 30th open meeting of the European Smart Work Network. Our great international…
(Updated 24/7/21) How do you embed the culture and behaviour change needed to make a success of Smart Working? The very successful Changemakers programme at the UK Department for Digital,…
Creating smart, sustainable and healthy workplaces, using the new ISO standard for acoustic excellence in open-plan environments, and new communications formats for live events are the topics for our July…
Our Open Session for both Members and Non-Members on May 27th 2021 examined what Activity-Based Working (ABW) is and its central contribution to smarter and more agile ways of working.…
The March 2021 session of the European Smart Work Network included a fascinating case study presented by Henk Smeenk, Concept Owner Hybrid Workplace at KLM. According to Henk, the VR…
The focus in our February European Smart Work Network session was on how work is experienced and supported in the new world of work, and looking at best practice and…
European Smart Work Network virtual meeting, 28 January 2021 January’s European Smart Work Network open meeting focused on 3 areas central to the new world of work: leadership, virtual customer interactions,…
Andy Lake challenges the lack of ambition implicit in these new descriptions of working post-pandemic. And we need to rethink what “remote working” means if we are to maximise the…
The European Smart Work Network was officially launched with an inaugural event on 24 November. The Network is a community of practice for people actively involved in implementing Smart Working…
