May 20, 2020
Deloitte has published its 2020 Global Technology Leadership survey, “The Kinetic Leader: Boldly Reinventing the Enterprise,” which sets out to examine the broader scope and evolution of tech leadership roles. The findings claim to reveal the increased need for agile and kinetic leaders — change instigators adept at driving tech-enabled transformation and organisational change. (more…)
May 20, 2020
The latest report on the attitudes of people towards their working lives after lockdown comes from Okta, Inc. in its report The New Workplace: Re-imagining Work After 2020, which claims to highlight the technological and cultural challenges office workers have faced as well as the lesson businesses can take to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. The research, which was conducted by YouGov, surveyed 2,000+ office workers across the UK, also found differences about the impact our new way of work has had on London based workers compared to workers in the rest of the country. (more…)
May 19, 2020
Carbon dioxide emissions have declined rapidly during the Covid-19 lockdown according to a new global academic study, but experts are warning that the reductions may be short-lived as normal economic activity resumes. The findings appeared today in the journal Nature Climate Change. The international study of carbon emissions found that daily emissions declined by around 17 percent between January and early April, compared to the previous year and could decline anywhere between 4.4 percent and 8 percent for the whole of 2020, the largest annual drop since the Second World War. (more…)
May 19, 2020
Not long ago, innovation was a largely internal affair. The journey from the laboratory to the marketplace took place largely within the four walls of the firm. Think of Bell Labs, IBM Research, or Xerox PARC. Each of them created important technological breakthroughs. And each breakthrough was commercialized through the company’s own businesses. (more…)
May 18, 2020
Until recently, the phrase ‘What’s neurodiversity?’ was a question I was frequently asked, often accompanied by a bit of a nervous stare. Fortunately, this is now changing, and thanks to continued research, community activism and representation in the media, people leaders now understand that neurodiversity means a unique talent to be tapped – not something to be avoided. (more…)
May 18, 2020
Almost three-quarters of UK adults say it is important that we learn from the coronavirus pandemic to be more kind as a society, according to a new survey. The survey was published by the Mental Health Foundation to mark the start of Mental Health Awareness Week, which this year has the theme of Kindness. Two-thirds of people say that when others are kind to them, it has a positive impact on their mental health, according to the survey of 4,256 UK adults aged 18 and above.
May 18, 2020
The UK is making great strides in adopting process automation technologies like robotic process automation (RPA) and process mining, according to new research from digital intelligence company ABBYY. The research report, The State of Process Mining and RPA (registration), claims that 64 percent of UK businesses are already using process mining technologies, with almost 3 in 10 (28 percent) currently using RPA and a further 34 percent intending to start in the next year. This comes as no surprise, since a vast majority believe that process mining (91 percent) and RPA (87 percent) are, or would be, useful to their business. (more…)
May 18, 2020
There’s just one month to go until CIPD hosts its Festival of Work, which has moved online for the first time. Extended to three days, it will provide even more access to expert masterclasses, discussions and skills sessions, and a taste of large-scale events of this kind for the future. It is following a well trodden path in the current climate as a number of other events have moved online. (For an up to date list of workplace events and their status visit our Events page). (more…)
May 17, 2020
The MillerKnoll Insight Group sponsor this events page. We do our best to make sure that this workplace events calendar is as comprehensive as possible, but if there’s something we’ve missed that you think we should include, please let us know. We believe it is essential that people make the effort to network and attend workplace events as much as possible, so if you see us at anything you attend, please say hello.
Transdisciplinary Workplace Research Conference 2026 (TWR)
02 September 2026 - 05 September 2026
Zurich
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FLOURISH - An executive summit for leading in the age of AI and constant change
03 September 2026 - 05 September 2026
Napa Valley
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CoreNet Summit - Beyond the Horizon: From Complexity to Clarity
08 September 2026 - 10 September 2026
Munich
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Work Beyond Walls 2026 - the North East's first living workplace event
09 September 2026 - 10 September 2026
Newcastle
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Work Beyond Walls
09 September 2026 - 10 September 2026
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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London Design Festival
12 September 2026 - 20 September 2026
London
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Shoreditch Design Week
15 September 2026 - 20 September 2026
London
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Neuroplaces - Exhibition and Conference for Neuroinclusive and Accessible Design Solutions
15 September 2026 - 17 September 2026
London
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Netherlands Office
15 September 2026
Amsterdam
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FM Connect London - Simply Beautiful with Sage
17 September 2026
London
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Zurich Design Weeks
17 September 2026 - 27 September 2026
Zurich
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Adaptive Acoustics: The Future of Intelligent Office Spaces
17 September 2026
Online
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EXPLORE THE FUTURE LEGAL WORKPLACE (Worktech Event)
17 September 2026
London
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Nudgestock 2026
17 September 2026
London
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Worktech Toronto - EXPLORE THE FUTURE OF WORK AND THE WORKPLACE
17 September 2026
Toronto
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Human Response to Colour in the Workplace - MillerKnoll Insight Series
23 September 2026
Online
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World of Work
23 September 2026
London
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Vienna Design Week
25 September 2026 - 04 October 2026
Vienna
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Worktech Zurich - EXPLORE THE FUTURE OF WORK AND THE WORKPLACE
30 September 2026
Zurich
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Breaking the Echo Chamber: Real Voices, Real Change
01 October 2026
London
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ANAMOb - Anatolia Furniture Fair
07 October 2026 - 11 October 2026
Kayseri
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Clerkenwales
07 October 2026 - 08 October 2026
Cardiff
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GCUC UK London 2026 Edition
08 October 2026 - 09 October 2026
London
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Workplace Design Conference 2026
08 October 2026
Ljubljana
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Destination 2.0 - The playbook everybody needs to master hybrid work - MillerKnoll Insight Series
14 October 2026
Online
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Future Focus 2026 - Annual CoreNet UK Conference
15 October 2026
London
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Facilities & Estates Management Live
20 October 2026 - 21 October 2026
London
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MIPIM - Middle East
20 October 2026 - 21 October 2026
Riyadh
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UNLEASH World - HR Event
20 October 2026 - 22 October 2026
Paris
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CoreNet Global North America Summit
26 October 2026 - 28 October 2026
Chicago
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Orgatec Europe 2026 - New Visions of Work
27 October 2026 - 30 October 2026
Cologne
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Tallinn Architecture Biennale
09 November 2026 - 30 November 2026
Tallinn
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The Analog Advantage: Making spaces for humans in the age of A.I. - MillerKnoll Insight Series
11 November 2026
Online
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Sustainability Summit
12 November 2026
Sydney / online
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Worktech London - EXPLORE THE FUTURE OF WORK AND THE WORKPLACE
17 November 2026
London
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IFMA World Workplace
18 November 2026 - 20 November 2026
Anaheim, California
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Scale Manchester
25 November 2026
Manchester
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MIPIM ASIA
02 December 2026 - 03 December 2026
Hong Kong
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From ‘cathedrals’ of interaction to diverse workplace settings - MillerKnoll Insight Series
13 January 2027
Online
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EuroFM Conference 2027 – Kufstein
18 February 2027 - 20 February 2027
Kufstein - Austria
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Design At Work New York
10 March 2027 - 11 March 2027
New York
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MIPIM 2027
15 March 2027 - 19 March 2027
Cannes
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The Workspace Exhibition
01 June 2027 - 03 June 2027
Dubai
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NEOCON 27
13 June 2027 - 16 June 2027
Chicago
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May 17, 2020
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May 15, 2020
From the archive. Originally published in 2013. People have been talking about the death of the office for at least a quarter of a century. Leaving aside the often misleading conflation of flexible working with homeworking that is often involved, the underlying premise of such talk has been the same for all of that time. The main argument is, and always was, that there is an alternative to the tedium, aggravation and expense of travelling to an office solely to work inside its hermetically sealed and fluorescent-lit, blue-carpeted interior alongside people who can drive you spare, before you schlep home again. (more…)
May 19, 2020
People working from home have the same legal protections as they do in offices
by Chris Salmon • Comment, Legal news, Wellbeing