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General discussion
    Figure 5.1 ‘Work Hard Anywhere’ app
And lastly, any effort to redesign the way a company works should be embedded in a change management project. This helps to streamline the communication through the period of the change, provides opportunities for experimenting and evaluating of options, and engages stakeholders in the choices.
5.4.2 Make places work for (remote) work
During my research, many workers approached me about how to make ‘working anywhere, anytime’ work. There are three main pieces of advice that I will discuss hereafter: develop a routine, build awareness and become digitally savvy.
First, when one starts working in various locations, it is important to develop a routinized process of how to set up one’s temporary workplace. Based on the interviews in my research, such a routine had two purposes: signaling to themselves that it was time to switch from leisure to work and, more importantly, reducing choices and uncertainty. The latter is an important purpose because what most people tend not to realize is that by
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