2022 update of IFMA Foundation's Work on the Move series. Explores the expanding role of FM and leadership associated with delivering workplaces post-pandemic.

The radically changing nature of “Work, Workers & Workplaces” – using space as a starting point of innovation

One of the defining characteristics of the debate about work and workplaces during the pandemic has been the reinvigoration of a couple of ideas about human beings we thought had been put to bed. The first is the idea of people as…

The global workplace community is in the midst of a revolution of thought and action about how, where, and when work should take place. For all the right reasons, we are in search of how to enable meaningful work from literally any…

A handbook to help understand the post-pandemic change, that “focuses on what is working in practice around the world and in hugely varied organizations”.

A book that describes how some businesses survived and even thrived in COVID pandemic, what they learned from those experiences, and how they - and their employees - have invented new and highly effective ways of working that lead to vastly…

There are many themes running through the history of the workplace; one that I have followed for many years is the challenge of engaging and coordinating a distributed and highly mobile workforce. Even before effective remote technologies…

For years it has been evident that there is no ‘future of work’. There is only a journey with no destination and no single way of not getting to it. That hasn’t stopped people talking about it all endlessly. And each time they have, I’ve…

Cognizant's Robert H. Brown and Desmond Dickerson will join Meeting of the Minds for a free webinar on August 19, 2020, at 10am PDT to walk us through their findings and take your questions. All registrants will receive a copy of the…

This post is the follow up to a late 2019 post on Workplace Events. It looks at the ramifications of no physical events and what is required from the Workplace Events industry.

I caught up with an old friend, as you do when you’re housebound reminiscing about the days when you could grab a chicken laksa at Jimmy’s or share a beer after work. He mentioned former colleagues of his were on the verge of moving into a…

Work&Place has just published a powerful article by University of California-Berkeley Professor Henry Chesbrough describing how "open innovation" can produce powerful results but also introduces new pitfalls and opportunities for…