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General discussion
Table 5.4 Overview practical advice about workplaces
Key learning
Rethink your way of working
Advise
Define a purpose for way of working
Determine the necessary physical and digital infrastructure
Adapt policy, rules and metrics to match way of working
Experiment and embed any transformation in a sound change management approach
Develop routines how to set up independent of a specific physical place
Build awareness suitable types of places for different goals
Become digitally savvy to ensure connection with colleagues, clients and digital files
Make deliberate choices when to connect face-to-face Use technology to arrange chance encounters online Schedule recurring optional virtual coffee chats
Additional resources
Buffer is a technology company with 85 employees in a full-time remote setup (Buffer, 2020)
Apple’s headquarters “The Spaceship” was built with proximity in mind to increase serendipitous encounters (Magnolfi, 2017)
Typical questions about remote work answered by HBR (Neeley, 2020)
Reddit forum thread Nomadlist platform
Work Hard anywhere app Map of coworking spaces
Make places work for work
Share places to foster weak ties
Apple’s headquarters “The Spaceship” was built with proximity in mind to increase serendipitous encounters (Magnolfi, 2017)
Deloitte’s “The Edge” was built for transparency (Randall, 2015)
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