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Innovating the Work Environment

14.00 Introduction to Innovative Workplaces

  • Introduction to Activity-Based Work and Agile Office concepts
  • The modern work environment: office buildings, generation Y, mobile technology
  • Innovative office space to enhance effectiveness (both cost and productivity)
  • The Agile Office

15.00 Application of the Agile office concept: Case studies and discussion

  • Case study: Skanska Stockholm & Skanska Poland
  • Case study: CBRE Poland & CBRE Amsterdam
  • Case study: Client’s testimony (tbc)

15.30 COFFFE BREAK

15.45 Application of the Agile office concept: Survey on office space usage

  • Office space as an induction tool and instrument of corporate change. How important in your view is the role of office space in setting up corporate standards?
  • What makes office building perfect for your company and your employees – amenities (conference centre, kindergarten, data security, location, common areas)
  • Employer branding. Office space as a tool in the fight for talent, creating corporate image / identity. Is your office one of your PR and marketing tools?
  • What is the most important for you in choosing / arranging the office? (e.g., healthy work environment, cost effectiveness, employee satisfaction, etc.)
  • Results and Discussion

16.15 Application of the concept to Business and Technology Services: Can it work for you?

  • Working groups of 5 – 10 participants will be asked to discuss 3 main topics:

Flexibility

  • Office environment flexibility as a response to fast-changing BPO sector’s needs: How an office can accommodate headcount fluctuations (both contraction and growth)?
  • Reducing workstations, increasing new typologies: new typologies that offer more diverse office environment to host more diverse activity types.
  • Moving away from desk-chained culture: Lack of personalised space replaced by freedom of choosing adequate work setting?

Knowledge management and induction

  • Agile office and learning opportunities: shadowing, participation in ad-hoc team activities;
  • Project work and ‘coffee machine’ effect: informal channels for business information exchange;

Productivity and Management

  • Office space responding to the new way of working: various and new zones enhancing office layout (networking / collaborative space, quite zones, phone booths, chill out rooms, cafeterias among others.)
  • How the office can enhance new way of working: from simple presence in the office to project management and assessment by results.

16.45 Workshop summary and 300 days plan

  • ASPIRE / Skanska survey
  • ASPIRE / Skanska / CBRE joint report
  • Potential for CBRE’s Health check services

Speakers & Moderators: