About Andy Lake

Andy is a specialist in implementing Smart/Agile Working. He is the author of Smart Flexibility (Routledge), a management book on implementing a business-focused approach to flexibility. He has carried out research into the future of work and its impacts, working with governments and academia. Andy was the technical author for the Cabinet Office/British Standards’ PAS 3000 – Code of Practice for Smart Working (2015) and is founder of Flexibility.co.uk. He is also founder of the Smart Work Network (www.smart-work.net), a peer collaboration network for practitioners implementing Smart Working across Europe. Andy has worked with dozens of companies and government-sector organisations in developing integrated strategies for 21^st century working, building the evidence-base for change, advising on strategy and designing cultural change programmes and training. Andy was the technical author for the Cabinet Office/British Standards’ PAS 3000 – Code of Practice for Smart Working (2015) and is founder of Flexibility.co.uk. He is also founder of the Smart Work Network (www.smart-work.net), a peer collaboration network for practitioners implementing Smart Working across Europe.

Posts by Andy Lake:

May 10, 2021

The workplace industry needs to think outside its ever-shrinking boxes

by Andy Lake • Comment, Flexible working

Is the workplace industry stuck in the past, in a 20th century model of how and where work is done? The separation of work and the rest of life during the Industrial Age has shaped the structures of modern life: the houses we live in, the offices, factories and shops we work in, and the transport networks that shuffle us from one location to another for different activities. It has also shaped the planning system, the institutional and financial structures of how places are designed and built, and perhaps most of all the mindsets of just about everyone involved in creating places to work and live. More →