With AI Copilots already in the marketplace and many workplaces, we are now beginning an accelerated transformation of work.
How is work changing today? What's different this time? How are organisations measuring, managing and leading this change?
In a recent member’s call industry leader, Microsoft MVP and past Boye conference speaker, Richard Harbridge joined us from Toronto and shared key insights to help you better understand, prepare and lead improved AI enriched communication, collaboration and management experiences.
So work is changing, it’s going to happen and it’s coming fast
Read moreWould you like flexible working hours, working from home when you want to, unlimited vacation and no more uncomfortable salary negotiations? Or perhaps it sounds too good to be true?
Our Frankfurt-based member byte5 has been living out these elements since before the pandemic with a specific no-pain focus. It has helped shape their company culture, but what is the secret and how has it really changed work?
byte5 works on business-critical web projects, in particular based on Laravel and also using other tools like Umbraco. Their radical approach to work has been featured by Handelsblatt, FAZ and other notable German news outlets.
Read more“I add full value to my organisation at my uttermost capacity”
After how many days post-first day into your current employment were you able to convey this statement with confidence? And how many days does it take a new colleague in your team/company to do the same?
These are good questions to make you think and to help us with some of the answers, we recently did our very first member call with insights from Southeast Asia. Tim Jessen, who is a Boye alumni and our previous Member Experience Manager relocated from Aarhus to Kuala Lumpur a few years ago. Now, he’s working as Senior Manager, Strategic Talent Management at SOCAR Mobility Malaysia, Malaysia’s No. 1 car-sharing company. Tim is busy hiring and has been working on how to better address employee onboarding issues
In the call he shared how he closes the time and money-sensitive gap for new employees from being a ‘new-joiner’ to becoming a fully assimilated, high-performing employee. Actually, as he said, it’s not just about closing the gap. The bigger picture is that a bad onboarding impacts both turnover and morale.
Read moreThe future of work unfolding as a distributed and hybrid digital workplace is throwing us some new challenges. Andrew Pope's work for a government client surfaced one such challenge that digital working during the pandemic has caused: a lack of focus time when compared to traditional office working.
Finding focus when we’re largely away from the office requires new behaviours and habits to reflect new working arrangements. What happened in the office isn’t happening right now.
For our very first member call of 2022, Andrew showed us how introducing game-based cards can help teams, leaders and individuals find new techniques that help us both find time and introduce structures to provide more space to focus. He also generously shared some of the more popular techniques that have been adopted in both private and public sector organisations.
Read moreJust last month, Dropbox announced their plans to go Virtual First. This means that remote work (outside an office) will be the primary experience for all employees and the day-to-day default for individual work, also after COVID. It also means non-linear workdays and it’s Dropbox’s take on creating a sustainable, thriving workplace for the future.
In a recent member conference call, we heard from Marc Pazcian at Dropbox on what going virtual first means in practice and how this impacts creativity and collaboration. Marc is Solutions Architect and Cultural Ambassador at Dropbox DACH region. He's based in Hamburg, Germany.
Read moreEven before COVID, there was a movement towards a renewed focus on how much the physical workspace matters. Not just software startups in the Bay Area, but also large, complex, global and old organisations were rethinking their office layout, asking for more flexibility and trying to cater to a more entrepreneurial mindset.
To Ulf Gaardsted which has been offering co-working spaces in Aarhus since the late ’90s, this also meant new customers arriving. Were traditionally small firms came for the facility sharing, community and perhaps really the parties, today larger firms are also looking for inspiring workspaces outside their own premises.
On the Future Workplace conference track at the Boye 20 Aarhus conference held earlier this month, Ulf shared his take on trends, 2020 learnings and his perspective on creating inspiring workspaces.
Read moreIn my recent conversation with UK-based Andrew Pope, he shared his insights on how the changes brought by the pandemic is impacting work, leading to what he terms the new modern workday.
We’ve quickly gone from a workplace, to working from home. And despite the tools generally being able to support this, it’s not as flexible as it should be. Many are working more and there’s clearly an element of digital overload.
Read moreTo really embrace the change in how we work that Teams offers, IT needs to hand over responsibility, or at least share ownership with the business.
The concept and function of teams (in the traditional sense) are a business thing. They are the smallest unit of work and they are what power all workplaces. Microsoft Teams is simply a place for teams to work.
It’s like thinking that clever office space will solve all of our problems….
Read moreIt seems to me, that many organizations have jumped too quickly on this new buzzword and consultants and analysts alike have now found a new pot of gold after the GDPR rainbow. Don’t take my word for it, see Forrester on The Employee Experience Playbook for 2019. As one of our members said at a peer group meeting: Upon reading it, I felt like the ship had sailed and we were too late.
Read moreThe good old team meeting. Somewhere for us to talk loudly and get our way, or perhaps the place for us to sit quietly at the back and respond to those urgent emails. Yet we still attend these, the expectation that it’s good for us to meet and discuss the issues of the day or the week.
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