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Remote work can boost innovation, but culture eats it for breakfast
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Remote workers don’t stick to their contracted hours and even (gasp) skip some days completely
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AI ushers in the era of the ‘frontier firm’, Microsoft report claims
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Negative feelings about work continue to grow, especially for managers
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What kind of change leader do you want to be?
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People’s expectations of work have changed forever (and they think office work should pay better than remote work)
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Come fly with me. The new digital issue of IN magazine is here for you
May 14, 2013
How ingrained assumptions about the workplace are eroding
by Ros Pomeroy • Comment, Facilities management, Workplace design
Ad agency RKCR © Jefferson Smith
The first day at a new job used to mean getting the answer to that all important question: “so which is my office?” In today’s mostly open plan environments, the same psychological attachment has been transferred to the desk – ‘my’ desk. However the current trend for flexible approaches to where people work means that even the concept of having one’s own desk is now under attack. So how much does having your own desk matter to the UK office workforce these days? We have been asking employees how they feel about having their own desk. The results seem to be that more than half, on average 56% (of a total of 2,653 employees surveyed at 5 recent client projects), think that it is ‘very important’ and a further 25% think it is ‘quite important’.
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