Offices At Work

Author : Peter Cappelli
Publisher : Wharton School Press
ISBN 13 : 1613631367
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of the Office written by Peter Cappelli and published by Wharton School Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A GLOBE & MAIL BEST BUSINESS BOOK OF 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic forced an unprecedented experiment that reshaped white-collar work and turned remote work into a kind of "new normal." Now comes the hard part. Many employees want to continue that normal and keep working remotely, and most at least want the ability to work occasionally from home. But for employers, the benefits of employees working from home or hybrid approaches are not so obvious. What should both groups do? In a prescient new book, The Future of the Office: Work from Home, Remote Work, and the Hard Choices We All Face, Wharton professor Peter Cappelli lays out the facts in an effort to provide both employees and employers with a vision of their futures. Cappelli unveils the surprising tradeoffs both may have to accept to get what they want. Cappelli illustrates the challenges we face by in drawing lessons from the pandemic and deciding what to do moving forward. Do we allow some workers to be permanently remote? Do we let others choose when to work from home? Do we get rid of their offices? What else has to change, depending on the approach we choose? His research reveals there is no consensus among business leaders. Even the most high-profile and forward-thinking companies are taking divergent approaches: --Facebook, Twitter, and other tech companies say many employees can work remotely on a permanent basis. --Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and others say it is important for everyone to come back to the office. --Ford is redoing its office space so that most employees can work from home at least part of the time, and --GM is planning to let local managers work out arrangements on an ad-hoc basis. As Cappelli examines, earlier research on other types of remote work, including telecommuting offers some guidance as to what to expect when some people will be in the office and others work at home, and also what happened when employers tried to take back offices. Neither worked as expected. In a call to action for both employers and employees, Cappelli explores how we should think about the choices going forward as well as who wins and who loses. As he implores, we have to choose soon.

Author : Laura Vanderkam
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593330056
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Corner Office written by Laura Vanderkam and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on her 18 years of experience working remotely, plus original interviews with managers, employees, and free agents who've perfected their remote routines, Laura Vanderkam shares strategies for productivity, creativity, and health in the new corner office. How do you do great work while sitting near the same spot where you watch Netflix? How can you be responsive without losing the focus necessary for getting things done? How can you maintain and grow your network when you spend less time face to face? The key is to detach yourself from old ways of working and adopt new habits to match your new environment. Long before public health concerns pushed many of us indoors, some of the most successful people fueled their careers with carefully perfected work-from-home routines. Drawing on those profiles and her own insights, productivity expert and mother of five Laura Vanderkam reveals how to turn "being cooped up" into the ultimate career advantage. Her hacks include: • Manage by task, not time. Going to an office for 8 hours makes you feel like you've done something, even if you haven't. Remote workers should set 3-5 ambitious goals for each day and consider the work day done when these are crossed off. • Get the rhythm right. A well-planned day features time for focused work, interactive work, and rejuvenating breaks. In place of a commute, a consciously chosen shut down ritual keeps work from continuing all night. • Nurture connections. Wise remote workers can build broader and more effective networks than people sitting in the same cubicle five days a week. Whether you're an introvert or an extrovert, a self-starter or someone who prefers detailed directions, you can do your clearest thinking and deepest work at home--and have more energy left over to achieve personal goals or fuel bigger professional ambitions. In fact, soon you might find it hard to imagine working any other way.

Author : Franklin Becker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780787976859
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Offices at Work written by Franklin Becker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-04-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Fortune 500 companies still struggle with workplace planningand design issues. Millions of dollars are invested each year bycompanies with the expectation that new buildings and majorrenovations will help transform their culture, spark innovation,and herald new work patterns that strengthen performance whilereducing costs. But, as Franklin Becker points out, popular trendsdo not always make good sense. Offices at Work addresses thefundamental design issues that organizational leaders confront suchas: How do we create a low-cost flexible environment that motivatesemployees and stimulates learning? Is it worth our spending the time, money, and effort toconsolidate our disparate buildings into a new corporatecampus? How else can we address status concerns besides giving peopleoffices? Order your copy today!

Author : An Bogaerts
Publisher : Lannoo Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789401478335
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where We Work written by An Bogaerts and published by Lannoo Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * A timely book of inspiring design ideas for creating the perfect in-home office, from kitchen to bedroom and classic office to attic* Lifestyle journalist An Bogaerts explores the most up-to-date home office trends with more than 200 pictures of innovative home officesWhere We Work highlights the many options that come into play when designing a home office. It brings together a wealth of inspiring visuals and design ideas from home offices around the world, along with practical guidance and the latest trends. The author introduces a variety of designs and styles - from London to Tokyo, from country-style to industrial - that might inspire us to turn our home offices into more than just a place to work.

Author : Julia Hobsbawm
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1529396549
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nowhere Office written by Julia Hobsbawm and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As remote working becomes the norm rather than the exception for many office workers around the globe, The Nowhere Office proposes a radical new way of thinking about work both now and in the future. Offering a strategic and practical guide to negotiating this pivotal moment in the history of work, The Nowhere Office addresses the problems which beset work - the endemic stagnant productivity and crisis of stress which predate the pandemic - and the new challenges of remote working, repurposing offices for more creative interaction, managing WFH teams and satisfying the demand for more purposeful work with greater work/life balance. Drawing on history, cutting-edge research and extensive interviews Julia Hobsbawm argues persuasively that now is the time to develop something better, more meaningful, and, crucially, more workable.

Author : Molly Erman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989888240
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Work Life written by Molly Erman and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the modern workplace, corner offices and water coolers have given way to open layouts and office dogs. But while the workplace itself is changing, what it takes to be a good employee and reliable coworker remains steadfast. From maximizing your productivity to navigating office dating and communal kitchens, Work Life is a handbook for the modern office--whatever yours looks like.

Author : Charlie Warzel
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593320107
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of Office written by Charlie Warzel and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book will challenge you to rethink what it takes to make remote work work—not just for companies, but for people.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife The future isn’t about where we will work, but how. For years we have struggled to balance work and life, with most of us feeling overwhelmed and burned out because our relationship to work is broken. This “isn't just a book about remote work. It's a book that helps us imagine a future where our lives—at the office and home—are happier, more productive, and genuinely meaningful” (Charles Duhigg, best-selling author of The Power of Habit). Out of Office is a book for every office worker – from employees to managers – currently facing the decision about whether, and how, to return to the office. The past two years have shown us that there may be a new path forward, one that doesn’t involve hellish daily commutes and the demands of jam-packed work schedules that no longer make sense. But how can we realize that future in a way that benefits workers and companies alike? Based on groundbreaking reporting and interviews with workers and managers around the world, Out of Office illuminates the key values and questions that should be driving this conversation: trust, fairness, flexibility, inclusive workplaces, equity, and work-life balance. Above all, they argue that companies need to listen to their employees – and that this will promote, rather than impede, productivity and profitability. As a society, we have talked for decades about flexible work arrangements; this book makes clear that we are at an inflection point where this is actually possible for many employees and their companies. Out of Office is about so much more than zoom meetings and hybrid schedules: it aims to reshape our entire relationship to the office.

Author : Ian McCallam
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061757977
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where We Work written by Ian McCallam and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the website www.thisaintnodisco.com, Where We Work explores how creative agencies transform lifeless commercial spaces into bastions of creativity, offering inspiring interiors and visual insight into the breadth and depth of each agency's thought process. By removing the traditional office furnishings and even the typical office culture, this new kind of workspace inspires coworkers to be at their most creative—free to relax, think, and accessorize—and visitors to dream of spending their own workdays within its walls. Whether the concepts are personal, indulgent, or simply well thought out, Where We Work invites the reader to discover a variety of offices where the pursuit of imagination is the driving force.

Author : Ben Waber
Publisher : FT Press
ISBN 13 : 0133158330
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People Analytics written by Ben Waber and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover powerful hidden social "levers" and networks within your company... then, use that knowledge to make slight "tweaks" that dramatically improve both business performance and employee fulfillment! In People Analytics, MIT Media Lab innovator Ben Waber shows how sensors and analytics can give you an unprecedented understanding of how your people work and collaborate, and actionable insights for building a more effective, productive, and positive organization. Through cutting-edge case studies, Waber shows how: Changing the way call center employees spent their breaks increased performance by 25% while significantly reducing stress Quantifying the failure of marketing and customer service to communicate led to a more cohesive and profitable organization Tweaking the balance of in-person and electronic communication can enhance the value of both Sensor data can help you discover who your internal experts really are Identifying employees involved in "creative" behaviors can help you promote innovation throughout your business Sensors and simulations can help you optimize your sick-day policies Measuring informal interactions can improve the chances that a merger, acquisition, or "mega-project" will succeed Drawing on his cutting-edge work at MIT and Harvard, Waber addresses crucial issues ranging from technology to privacy, revealing what will be possible in a few years, and what you can achieve right now. In bringing the power of analytics to organizational development, he offers immense new opportunities to everyone with responsibility for workplace performance.

Author : Marie Kondo
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
ISBN 13 : 0316423343
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joy at Work written by Marie Kondo and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Declutter your desk and brighten up your business with this transformative guide from an organizational psychologist and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. The workplace is a magnet for clutter and mess. Who hasn't felt drained by wasteful meetings, disorganized papers, endless emails, and unnecessary tasks? These are the modern-day hazards of working, and they can slowly drain the joy from work, limit our chances of career progress, and undermine our well-being. There is another way. In Joy at Work, bestselling author and Netflix star Marie Kondo and Rice University business professor Scott Sonenshein offer stories, studies, and strategies to help you eliminate clutter and make space for work that really matters. Using the world-renowned KonMari Method and cutting-edge research, Joy at Work will help you overcome the challenges of workplace mess and enjoy the productivity, success, and happiness that come with a tidy desk and mind.