The Future of Work and Its Affect on Workplace Strategies

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The Future of Work and Its Affect on Workplace
Strategies

• Presented By
• Jeff Martin, CFM
• Director, Workplace Solutions
• AOL, LLC
• Dulles, Virginia USA

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Introduction

• The future of the workplace is changing
• Enhanced technology
• Desire for work/life balance
• Changing worker demographics
• Business Drivers
• Constantly changing
• Availability of labor / talent

Real Estate plays a key role in enabling work.
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Changing Worker Demographics

• Different goals expectations
• Baby Boomers
• Gen X
• Millennial
• Different Work Styles
• Use of Technology

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Changing Technology Type of Work

• Wireless Technologies
• BlackBerry
• Treo
• Home High speed Internet access
• Knowledge-based work

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College VS Office Environment
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Office Utilization Study
4 observed average occupancy 64
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Conference Room Utilization
average occupancy 38
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Alternative Workplace Strategies (AWS)

• Allows people to do their job without barriers.
• Aligns a persons workspace with their work
  style.
• Enhances productivity, recruitment and retention.
• Increases workspace utilization.
• Examples of AWS
• Shared work areas
• Telework
• Hotelling
• Smaller individual workspace, larger
  collaborative areas

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Benefits

• Qualitative benefits
• Social Benefits, Job satisfaction, Turnover,
  Absenteeism
• Increased workspace utilization
• Accommodate growth without additional space
• Reduced costs of relocation and reconfiguration
• Increased workspace fit Increased productivity

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Opportunities

• Provide variety of spaces
• More informal meeting
• Fun spaces Game rooms, soft seating
• Flexible spaces Project Areas
• Evaluate AWS as an alternative in growth areas
• Telecommuting pilot projects
• Shared Spaces (hotelling)
• Next Steps
• Workspace utilization studies
• Meetings with senior management
• Present recommendations