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Smart Work Network – June meeting in Edinburgh

Join us for the next meeting of the Smart Work Network in Edinburgh, in June. It’s being hosted at the Scottish Government’s offices at Victoria Quay, which have been designed to support flexible ways of working. Our hosts, to whom many thanks, are Scottish Forestry and the Scottish Government. We’ll gain insights into Scottish Forestry’s change programme, and how they collaborated with Scotitsh Government to implement activity-based working environments as part of an extensive change programme.

There will also be a special focus on Smart Working and Sustainability, with new information presented and a workshop where we can get to grips with making sure Smart Working supports sustainabiltiy initiatives.

Here are the details:

Smart Work Network
18 June 2024

Meeting hosted by Scottish Government and Scottish Forestry

at Victoria Quay, Edinburgh

09.15 Arrival, Registration and Tea/Coffee
10.00 Welcome
10.10 Smarter Working at Scottish Forestry and Scottish Government – Presentation by Bastian Altrock, Scottish Forestry, and Vivien Gordon, Scottish Government.

Bastian will take us through Scottish Forestry’s journey to new ways of working. Conversations about how the organisation should work after the pandemic led to more wide-ranging discussions about where people should work and what the workspaces should look like, plus a lot of organisational change added into the mix. Vivien will then take us through the cooperation between Scottish Government and Scottish Forestry to implement the changes.

The presentation will also cover Scottish Forestry’s approach to corporate sustainability, and how they take into account where people are working.

Followed by a Q&A session on the presentation and issues raised.
11.10 Network News, including future meeting plans and new online content.
11.15 Open House – Open information-sharing session. A chance to let each other know what your organisation has been doing or wants to do in Smart/Agile/Flexible Working, and to raise issues and questions.
11.45 Tour – A chance to see around the Scottish Government’s flexible workspaces
12.30 Networking lunch
13.15 Workshop session: Smart Working and Sustainability

After a short introductory presentation by Andy Lake, author of Beyond Hybrid Working and insights from Scottish research into sustainability [more details later], we’ll work together in this facilitated and highly interactive session to explore:

  • Best practices in making workplaces more sustainable as well as better environments for working
  • The benefits of going beyond compliance
  • The evidence base for the environmental impacts of flexible ways of working, and how they can relate to business benefits
  • The wider picture of the relationship between the natural environment and better ways of working
  • Potential impacts of new ways of working for more sustainable communities

The aim of the workshop session is to capture and share best practices and new ideas from all participants, to help us all move forward creating more sustainable places to work and more sustainable ways of working. Is there an ideal model we can adopt?
15.15 Roundup, and next meeting arrangements
15.30 Close

 

If you’re a Member of the Network, or if your organsiation is implementing new ways of working and you’d like to attend, contact Andy Lake, andy.lake@flexibility.co.uk to apply for registration. 

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