the evolution of the untethered workplace - the future of work & the future of the workplace
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THE EVOLUTION OF
THE UNTETHERED WORKPLACEThe Future of Work and the Workplace
Photo Credit: Deloitte Amsterdam – The Edge
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CONTENTS1. The Future of Work & The Workplace
2. The Untethered Mobility
3. The Untethered Talent
4. The Untethered Workplaces
5. Evolution of the Untethered Workplace
Dictionary
untethered [ʌnˈtɛðəd]
adj
not tied or limited with or as if
with a tether
Thesaurus
untethered-not confined or
restricted with a tether
unbound-not restrained or tied
down by bonds
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In the Fall of 2013, The Los
Angeles Times declared:
The concept of an
'untethered' office
takes root -
in an article on RE brokerage
firms CBRE's offices in downtown
L.A. It reported that in this office
now no one has assigned desks
or offices, with employees
roaming freely and indicating it is
an example for other white-collar
firms to follow.
Where the present exclusivity
(entitlement) is replaced with
inclusivity (shared, unassigned)
conducive to greater cooperation
and creativity.
Photo Credit: CBRE
THE FUTURE OF WORK
& THE WORKPLACE IS
HERE IT IS JUST
DISTRIBUTED.
The concept of an 'untethered' office takes root The Future of Work Is Now
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In the digital, globalised
economy, society and
technology are progressing at
a faster rate than institutions
and organisations can adapt
where
Business disruption
is the new normal.
It has forced organisations to
think differently about
business models, customer
journeys, and organizational
agility.
These influences are
predicating new outcomes
such as new markets, new
products and new services,
some of which we have never
imagined possible.
Photo Credit: Digital Consulting / Altimer Group
DISRUPTIVE
TECHNOLOGY IS
CHANGING BUSINESS
Digital Darwinism Disrupt or Be Disrupted
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A PEW report indicates that
North Americans are
leapfrogging over expensive
home computers and taking
up smartphones.
The ubiquitous
connectivity has
brought on the
fluid mobility
Money. Health. Education.
Communication. Security.
Home automation. There are
very few things being
created today that don’t
somehow have a mobile
component to them. So not
only is everything mobile, but
Mobile is Everything and it is
expected.
Photo Credit: Mobile is Everything
FLUID -
“UNTETHERED
MOBILITY”
IS HERE
Mobile World Congress 2016: Mobile Is Everything The Future of Work: The Digital Hustle
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It is reported that number
of devices in the world
today exceed the total
number of people on the
earth.
In the next 5 years
the number of
connected devices
will increase
exponentially.
It is common to rely most
heavily on smartphones as
a gateway to online
services and information &
moving digital experiences
fluidly and securely and
extending them into their
worklife environment.
Photo Credit: Unknown
THE NUMBER OF
MOBILE-CONNECTED DEVICES
PER CAPITA WILL REACH 1.5
BY 2020.
The number of mobile-connected devices per capita will reach 1.5 by 2020 A Portrait of Smartphone Ownership
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Mobile technologies have
created an environment of
ubiquitous connectivity,
in which employees can be
accessible at any time of the
day, any day of the week.
The era of “the
always-on”
workforce is upon
us, brought on by
mobile
technologies
More and more employees
are using mobile devices in
their jobs and they regularly
checked their devices for
messages outside of working
hours. It is the new normal.
Photo Credit: Getty Images
THE WORK DAY IS NO
MORE AN 8 HOURS A
DAY WORK DAY
ANYMORE
8 hours a day work day
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PSFK Labs released recently a
report: The Nomad Class
Debrief, which explore
the rising class of creative
professionals who live, work
and play without the
traditional constructs of time
or place.
It refers to a global group who
are driven by the ability to
work:
From virtually
anywhere, and
whose lifestyles are
already being
adopted by the
mainstream
workplace.
Photo Credit: Unknown - PSFK
“UNTETHERED
TALENT”
IS HERE
PSFK Labs Nomad Class Debrief Report
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The growing number of
“untethered workforce” is
increasing every day and
taking talent with them.
We’re facing a world where -
The best and
brightest talent are
prepared to follow
their own agenda
& opportunities,
wherever they may be and
irrespective of who is
offering them.
It’s a world where the
strongest and most
sustainable supply of talent
is in the East, rather than the
West.
Photo Credit: Google Images
TALENT HAS NO
BOUNDARIES
Talent mobility: 2020 and beyond Have work, will travel:
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The new work
environment of the digital
age requires we
collaborate more; we are in
meetings more often;
coworkers are reaching
out for advice.
There is a
collaborative
overload in our
workplace.
Organisations are learning
from the collaborative
environment. The rules of
the future of collaboration
is not yet written as the
tools are changing the way
we manage, learn, and get
things done.
Photo Credit: Unknown
BRINGING
PEOPLE
TOGETHER - FOR
COLLABORATION
Collaborative overload Designed for Interaction Future of collaboration
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Collaboration is turning
into a value system, a
mindset that determines
if a business is successful.
Collaboration
has turned our
team members
to Cooperators –
who come together for a
common purpose. This
cooperation between
team members working
from different locations
all over the planet, in
different time zones; with
different team members;
gives rise to the
“untethered workforce”.
Photo Credit: Box.com
COLLABORATION
IS NOW AN
VALUE SYSTEM
A value system How to Build More Collaborative Teams According to Harvard Research
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The ability of the mobile
devices has enabled team
members to become
“untethered” and work from
many locations –
Coworking hubs
are emerging in
locations locally;
globally & in
organisations too.
To support an “untethered
workforce” who have the
opportunity to work with
different individuals, groups
in different locations and
drive synergies that cannot
be gained from only working
with just their colleagues.
Photo Credit: WeWork Labs
“UNTETHERED
WORKPLACE”
IS HERE
Coworking
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5 Flexible Work Strategies And The Companies That Use Them
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Qi Wireless Charging
Connected, sensor-packing
LED lighting; Preference
knowing App for light and
temperature; Hot Desking
Building designed to
engineer the perfect
workday for every
employee at
Deliotte
An app finds you a desk,
because at the Edge, you
don’t have one. No one does.
Workspaces are based on
your schedule: preference of
sitting desk, standing desk,
work booth, meeting room,
balcony seat, or concentration
room.
Photo Credit: Deloitte
CORPORATIONS
EDGING TOWARDS -
SMART NEW WAY OF
WORKING
The Smartest Building in the World
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The digital global economy has
changed work & the workplace
from local teams to global team
as organisations have -
To quickly deliver the
right team, with the
right experience and
expertise, to every
client, anywhere in
the world.
Corporations such as consulting
firm McKinsey have no
headquarters in the traditional
sense. The worldwide managing
director, elected by the
partners, chooses his or her
home office, currently London –
an growing trend.
Photo Credit: NJJB Architects
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WORKPLACE”
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The prevalence of mobile
and digital technology has
reshaped customer
preferences and decision-
making routines. Design
Thinking is unlocking it.
We’ve entered a
new era where
enhancing
customer
experience is key.
Companies have to create
meaningful experiences in
the customer journey,
through User Experience
(UX) and infusing human-
centered design in
products and services.
Photo Credit: iStock Photos
CREATIVITY
UNLEASHED –
DESIGN THINKING
MOVES INTO THE
BOARDROOM
X: Where Business Meets Design
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Organizations are becoming
more boundary-less, agile,
global, and transparent. They
are leveraging the network
effects of a platform - open,
inclusive - with a strategic
focus.
Global companies
are creating global
workplaces without
borders with global
talent.
Large diversified team
working together from
different locations time zones
are enabling companies to
grow more quickly, learn
faster, and deliver smarter
products and services.
Photo Credit: Box.com
GLOBAL WORKFLOW
- PLATFORMS OF
WORK
Peers Inc. Advantage of the Silicon Valley
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The way we are working is
changing fast and traditional
career paths look less and less
relevant. Lots of different jobs
as technology releases us
from the nine to five.
“Human cloud” – a
vast global pool of
freelancers working
with internal talent
members
Work will be done with
participation of people
outside the company – free
agents; consultants; experts &
peers. The best of people
power is combined with the
best of corporate power.
Photo Credit: Getty Images
AN ECOSYSTEM
OF HYBRID
TALENT POOL
Five ways work will change in the future
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Talent and organization leaders will
form strong social and community
relationships and master the ethics
of collaboration with machines.
Cognitive Era for
Collaboration for the
amounts of information
in systems that are
currently flooded with
AI.
Analytics, algorithms, big data and
automation are likely to enhance
productivity and decision-making,
automating & migrating tasks to
machines or robots & mastering
big data. The question is:
How should governments and
corporations respond, and what
are the models for governance?
CASBS Future of Work and Workers Project Photo Credit: IBM Outthink
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The Rise of the Digital
Buildings brings better
workplace experience for
users
Digital ceiling - the
convergence of
building system
changing the user
experience.
Transforming the workplace
into a flexible, collaborative
environment that helps
empower today’s digital
workforce and increase
employee engagement and
productivity, and enhance
innovation through digital
buildings.
Photo Credit: Cisco Workforce experience
THE DIGITAL
BUILDINGS – LIVING
SMARTER
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In the digital, global
untethered workplace, the
biggest challenge is:
To rethinking
performance
management &
create a compelling
employee
experience.
The employee experience is
what happens when an
employee interacts within
your organization where
thousands of people know
what to do, cooperate to get
it done, and experience it as
personally fulfilling.
Photo Credit: Box.com
EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE
- RETHINK PERFORMANCE
MANAGEMENT
Why The Future Of Work Is All About The Employee Experience
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Freedom of Inclusivity;
common to be shared to
collaborate to create-
Workplace services and
settings are extensions and
components of the work
itself.
Adaptive
Environments that
interact
dynamically, not
passively, with the
work process
Workplace – operationally
flexible & scalable; evolving
to remain fluid and flexible
bringing people together.
Photo Credit: Motorola Mobility
ADAPTIVE
ENVIRONMENTS–
BRINGING PEOPLE
TOGETHER
Why Aren’t We Building More Mixed Offices?
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In a global environment where, it is reported that, 70% of the
companies on the Fortune 1000 list 10 years ago have vanished and
in an environment where no business is too big
to fail or too small to succeed, where
technology and society are growing at a faster pace than
organisation and corporation can catch up.
In a business environment where the work as we
know is broken, where our age old assumptions are no
more relevant and the metrics of success are being redefined and
where the clarity of words we use to discuss business, standbys like
marketplace and competitive advantage, are redefined and rendered
almost meaningless.
Photo Credit: Getty Images
UNTETHERED WORKPLACE IS
TAKING ROOT & EVOLVING
70% of the companies on the Fortune 1000 list 10 years ago have vanished Workplace as we know is broken,
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In an ever increasing digital, global environment which is
shaping the world in which we work, but more than that, it is
shaping the evolution of business through its influence on the
workplace and the organisation itself.
Business leaders are finding new ways to
compete in an era of unprecedented
digital change
Business leaders have to rethink the business as the type of
change is reshaping the relationship between customers and
companies, breaking down the walls between industry sectors.
Photo Credit: Shutterstock Business leaders are finding new ways to compete in an era of unprecedented digital change,
UNTETHERED
WORKPLACE IS TAKING
ROOT & EVOLVING
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Organizations are becoming
more boundary-less, agile, global,
and transparent and leveraging
the network effects of a platform
that is open inclusive and yet
with a strategic focus.
In this chaotic yet productive
business environment where
organisations are just learning to
adapt.
The biggest challenge
is to envision, create
and deploy the
untethered workplace
Where thousands of people
know what to do, cooperate to
get it done, and experience it as
personally fulfilling.
Photo Credit: Getty Images
IS YOUR ORGANISATION MOVING
TOWARDS “THE UNTETHERED
WORKPLACE” ?
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How long before Architecture,
Interior Design and Engineering -
who design the Workplace of the
business gets impacted by this?
The challenge to the
Designers; Academics
and Professional
Associations ahead.
How are our academics and
university that teach the discipline
of Architecture, Interior design
and Engineering adapt to it and
thus prepare the future designers?
How long before the Architecture,
Interior Design and Engineering
associations realize the impact of
these events and prepare the
industry for it?
Photo Credit: Pixabay
ARE WE ADDRESSING THE
CHALLENGE SET BEFORE US
WITH OLD TOOLS & SKILLS?
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