19931988 1989 1990 1991 1992Andrew MawsonAnn DonovanDr Graham JervisWes McGregor

0

WORKPLACE STRATEGY IN THE LIFE OF A MAJOR TECHNOLOGY COMPANY 430 420Move to free-address starts in Finland

Followed by landmark projects in Scandinavia

Fire in UK launches mobile working program

Density (sf/hc)

Y E A R S (- 3) – 0 • Rodney King riots in LA • Bill Clinton becomes US

president• Premier league is formed • Euro Disney opens in

France • The Big Breakfast airs• 31 out of 50 of Britain's

deep coal mines close• First nicotine patch

AWA based in Tooley Street, London Bridge

• Soviet union collapses, officially ending cold war

• ‘Gastro-Pubs’ begin to open in UK

• Virgin Atlantic introduces seatback TVs

• Nirvana releases Nevermind, signifying the start of the ‘Grunge’ era

• Nelson Mandela freed• Hubble space telescope

launches• East and West Germany

Unify• ‘World Wide Web’ launches• Thatcher resigns, Major

steps in• SMS texting introduced• The Simpsons debuts

AWA Incorporated

Learning Building Group formed

Started trading

An early meeting at the Institute of Directors, London

19981993 1994 1995 1996 1997

Penny MasonAndrew Trist

5AWA turns 5

WORKPLACE STRATEGY IN THE LIFE OF A MAJOR TECHNOLOGY COMPANY

420 380US organization begins to adopt mobile working (sales)

Mobility begins in Asia (Bangkok)

Formal homeworking program implemented

Density (sf/hc)

Y E A R S 0 – 5

Liz KennettDenise Stark

• European Union established• Ty Warner: ‘Beanie Babies’• First WWW browser - Mosaic -

released • Dyson sells first bag-less Vacuum• Shane Warne bowls the ‘ball of

the century’• ‘The X-Files’ first airs

• Amazon created• Channel Tunnel opened • Sunday Trading laws begin• ‘The Lottery’ introduces -

£7M prize• Ayrton Senna killed at Imola • Herman Miller designs the

Aeron Chair

• Tony Blair takes office• Princess Diana killed in Paris• First ‘Harry Potter’ book hits shelves• Hale-Bopp comet is visible• Hong Kong returns to China• IBM’s Deep Blue defeats Kasparov• Mike Tyson bites Holyfield’s ear• Woolworths closes

• OJ Simpson found not guilty• Cantona kicks Crystal Palace

fan • ‘Sat Nav’ becomes available• Yahoo and eBay launched • DVDs go on sale for first time• Dolly the Sheep becomes the

first cloned animal

• Mad Cow disease sweeps UK• Prince Charles divorces Diana • Dunblane School massacre• Unibomber arrested• Atlanta hosts the Olympics• Supertanker Sea Empress runs

aground on the Welsh coast

Launch of Workplace Benchmark

Group

First agile working

project for Nationwide

Quadrilect conference:

“Working Differently”

20031998 1999 2000 2001 2002Anna de BuisseretChris Wood

10AWA turns 10WORKPLACE STRATEGY IN THE LIFE OF A MAJOR TECHNOLOGY COMPANY

380 278Technology starts to better support remote working

Merger occurs and workplace program is set back ten years

New merger appears and workplace program is reinvigorated

Density (sf/hc)

• The millennium bug wasn’t!• Tate Modern opens• Vladimir Putin elected Russian

President• Concorde crashes in France• Sydney hosts the Olympics• Millennium ‘wobbly’ Bridge closed• Big Brother airs for the first time

Y E A R S 5 – 1 0

Karen Plum Diane BurnJanette Lee SangJulie Ellen BarrettLinda DoeRichard Watts

AWA moves to Cornhill

Caroline GourlayDawn WillsJane BoxJay RoseveareMichael DochertyPeter FennahSonia BaldockStephanie Mackellar

Helen GuestMel HampsonMichael GottliebVal Gascoyne

Tracy ShortTrevor Wignall

• George Bush sworn in as 43rd

President• 9/11 attacks in America • US and allies invade Afghanistan• iPod launched by Apple• Eden Project opens• Wikipedia goes online• David Brent hits our screens

• Euro makes its debut• Panama get their canal back• Total solar eclipse• Self rule restored in Northern

Ireland - first time in 22 years• Minimum hourly wage act

introduced – at £3.60 per hour• ‘SpongeBob Squarepants’ premiers

• Funeral of the Queen Mother • Apple introduces the iMac G4• Sky + is introduced, replacing

video taping for many• Mars Odyssey finds huge ice

deposits on Mars• Golden Jubilee of Queen

Elizabeth II

• Good Friday Agreement signed • Bill Clinton denies he had ’sexual

relations’ with Monica Lewinsky• France wins 1998 world cup • Google founded• Digital terrestrial TV service

launches• ECHR established

Launch of Workplace

Best Practice Group

VC 2000 Video

Conference project

10th

Anniversary papers

published

20082003 2004 2005 2006 2007Alicia KellyLisa HillMarjorie RaymondMartha GourdNorrie WalkerTony Ecuyer

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278 232Formal program developed and implemented opportunistically

Most of the focus is in cost reduction but some cultural nuances

Density (sf/hc)

Y E A R S 1 0 – 1 5• Iraq holds first Parliamentary

elections since 1958• 7/7 bombings in London• Hurricane Katrina • Airbus A380’s first flight• USBs replace floppy disks• Merkel is German Chancellor• Live 8 concerts take place

Global workplace transformation program launched

Peter Wingrave Philippa Hale

• US and allied forces invade Iraq

• Saddam Hussein captured • Human Genome sequenced • Arnold Schwarzenegger is

Californian Governor • Space Shuttle Columbia

disintegrates upon re-entry

• George Bush re-elected• Madrid train bombings• First privately funded spaceflight

with Virgin Galactic • Facebook goes live• Fox hunting banned• Boxing Day Tsunami devastates

south east Asia

• Tony Blair’s final PMQs• Apple introduce the iPhone• Madelaine McCann disappears

prompting a worldwide search• Google Street view launched• ‘Kindle’ sparks fears of the end of

paper books• Digital TV switchover begins

• Saddam Hussein executed• Italy wins the 2006 world cup • Barry Bonds breaks Babe Ruth’s

home run record• Smoking ban introduced in the UK• Twitter launches• Pluto demoted to ‘Dwarf Planet’• Last ever Top of the Pops

“Building the Advanced

Organisation” conference

RBS - 1st

large scale agile working programme

20132008 2009 2010 2011 2012Steve DalePaula Skidmore

20AWA turns 20

WORKPLACE STRATEGY IN THE LIFE OF A MAJOR TECHNOLOGY COMPANY

232 176Global design center to govern implementation created

Target set to reduce occupancy cost from US $7.9k to US$4k per head in 3 1/2 years

Density (sf/hc)

Y E A R S 1 5 – 2 0• Barack Obama is first African

American US President• Sri Lankan civil war ends after

25 years• Michael Jackson dies• Usain Bolt sets 100m record• Burj Khalifa worlds tallest

building

Target achieved in 2012

AWA moves to Gracechurch St

David SterryHelen StenhouseJane SalvesonOlivia Evans

Paul Carder Clare DanahayMel Parkes

• Rioting erupts across parts of London

• Death of Osama bin Laden• Worsening economic crisis in

Greece• World’s first synthetic organ

transplant • Space Shuttle retired

• London hosts the Olympics• Diamond Jubilee of Queen

Elizabeth II• The Mayan calendar reached it’s

end… but the world didn’t• Curiosity rover lands on Mars• Facebook goes public

• Huge earthquake kills over 230,000 people in Haiti

• Volcanic ash cloud in Iceland disrupts air travel

• Deepwater Horizon oil platform explodes

• 33 miners survive 69 days in a Chilean mine following cave-in

• Stock markets crash• Growing fears of global

recession• Lehman Brothers file for

bankruptcy• Northern Rock taken into

public ownership • Beijing hosts the Olympics

Home Office Workplace

Project

Launch of Workplace

Week

Launch of Workplace

PIN

“Kinetic Organisation”

Report

Magenta appointed to manage PR

Florence Lewis

20182013 2014 2015 2016 2017Amy HillGaurav CharayaJoshua SumnerLaurence PooleMarita SchardtMarty AndersonMerilyn KeskulaMichael Melani

25AWA turns 25

WORKPLACE STRATEGY IN THE LIFE OF A MAJOR TECHNOLOGY COMPANY

176 135Company splits into two separate businesses

Engineers are let go and rehired as contractors

Call to bring staff back into the office

Density (sf/hc)

• Trump wins US presidency• Britain votes to leave the EU• Trans Pacific Partnership flops• The coup in Turkey fails• Colombia + FARC bury hatchet• Eastern Aleppo falls• Andy Murray wins Wimbledon

Y E A R S 2 0 – 2 5• Mass shooting in Las Vegas• Brexit triggered• France elects Emmanuel

Macron• Trump meets Putin• ISIS soundly beaten in Iraq• Usain Bolt retires• Chelsea wins the EPL

• Refugee crisis in Europe• ISIS strikes on 3 continents• Climate deal reached• Russia intervenes in Syria• Greece in austerity program• Iran nuclear deal• Arsenal wins FA Cup• Patriots win Superbowl

• Ebola becomes global epidemic• Disaster on Malaysian flight• Russia moves into Crimea• Israeli Hamas conflict• Rio hosts the Olympics• ISIS emerges• Winter games in Russia• Violent riots in US

• Boston marathon bombing• Nelson Mandela dies• Prince George born• Bombing in Kenya• Typhoon Haiyan hits

Philippines• Pope Benedict resigns• North Korea sanctioned

Will CorlassWilliam Buller

Rachel ClementsSteve CoxTrevor Alldridge

PartnersP.O.T Beratungstean3G Office

Knowledge Worker

Productivity Research

Launch of Workplace

Management Framework

Agile Working

Bootcamp launched

AWA rebrands with

help from RAW & HUB WMF

adopted by IFMA

Creation of Boost

Cognition1st global

agile working programme:

WTW

Launch of North

American operation

Alison HallChris HoodDr Colombine GardairFran FerronePeter TilleySarah HodgeSusan Thomas

Claire ArnoldKathy TilneyToby Smith