Handle with care: managing people in the post-virus workplace
WORKTECH Wednesday Briefing is a new addition to the Academy’s coverage during the pandemic. In our first video feature, Academy director Jeremy Myerson discusses the potential impact of coronavirus on experience, mental health and leadership at work
Coronavirus challenge: can we work from home effectively?
As coronavirus tightens its grip, more and more companies are sending their people to work from home. But while greater organisational interest in flexible working is welcome, research suggests there are considerable barriers to enabling work in the home
Will ‘floworking’ be the fourth age of the financial workplace?
The major changes seen in the financial sector over the past decade are set to develop in new and intriguing ways, according to WORKTECH’s Financial Workplace 19 conference
Tactical urbanism: the art of giving workers space to enjoy the city
As the workplace extends from the desk to the district, the rise of quick, inexpensive, small-scale urban changes to create vibrant public spaces is set to have a growing impact on work and life in the city
Facing digital assassination? Innovation predictions for 2020
What’s in store of us in 2020 as technology takes on a growing range of social challenges? UK innovation foundation Nesta has made a series of ten predictions
Utopia or dystopia? How work shapes health in our cities
As our polluted urban centres struggle to be great places to live and work, public health policy is now turning its attention to what happens in the workplace
Go for green: why sustainability is back on the radar in 2019
Sustainable design has been pushed down the corporate agenda by the buzzwords of wellbeing and amenity. Now it’s back – driven by millennial commitment to climate change
Is the rise of the super-experience the next frontier in workplace design?
In the race for talent, improving workplace experience is now on the radar of every organisation. But as new technologies and design practices raise the stakes in what can be achieved, are we now entering the era of the super-experience?
