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Making sense of how humans work digitally (full report)

When the pandemic arrived unannounced in 2020, we discovered what was really essential in work. Mostly, this was not the physical places of work (although some did remain essential of course); it was the digital spaces where we could continue to meet and function. In developed economies, most of the workforce started to work from…

This episode of the Nature of Work podcast is your front-row seat at the first ever Burford Literary Festival. Co-authors Paul Miller and Shimrit Janes recall their experience of writing the Nature of Work book, sharing with the festival audience the story and vision behind the whole Nature of Work concept and explaining how walks…

For this September 2021 DWG Institute Technology Exchange, we were joined by Troy Campano, Chief Product Officer, Workgrid, and Angie Wyatt, Director, Global Director Workplace Experience, The AES Corporation, to talk about the how the Workgrid platform is improving the employee experience in the hybrid digital workplace. This post explores some of the main takeaways…

It was a dissonant moment when I sat back to work out that five years have now passed since DWG’s first research report into organizational readiness was published. Dissonant, because writing the paper is so fresh in my mind. And dissonant because the world in which I wrote its sequel has transformed into something so very, very different. Time flows in unfathomable ways.  Organizational…

Hybrid working and return-to-office strategies are front of mind for many organizations right now. As we reimagine and redesign our workspaces, balancing the digital and physical, in-person and remote, organizations should be challenged that ‘return to office’ very definitely doesn’t mean just returning to the past.   The workplace has changed since the pandemic, with a…

Written by Elizabeth Marsh A couple of years back, the Harvard Business Review reported on a fascinating study about the benefits of curiosity for business. It turns out that curiosity plays more of a role in business performance than we may have thought.  An inquisitive, learning mindset reduces decision-making errors and fosters innovation and creativity. Why?…

The 2021 Digital Workplace of the Year Awards celebrate the organizations and individual practitioners who have excelled at creating well-executed, high-performing digital workplaces and environments. For 2021 the categories are: Digital Workplace of the Year (awarded to an organization) Digital Workplace Leader of the Year (awarded to an individual) Modern Intranet of the Year (awarded to an…

Beauty is so much more than just that in the eye of the beholder, embracing also the emotions evoked in the heart of that beholder.  When you think of Barcelona, it’s hard not to conjure up images of Gaudi’s majestic architecture – an architect famous for taking common spaces and elevating them to a level of beauty where your emotions also have to rise to that level. Not just aesthetic beauty,…

Key practices in a (post) pandemic world