Overview
Webinar: join us for ‘Transforming the future of work: in conversation with Nationwide’
Register your place now for episode 59 of ‘Navigating turbulent times’ when I am joined by Nationwide to discuss their mid-pandemic shift to flexible working: what they did, how they did it, and the challenges they have faced in helping their people to ‘work anywhere’.
Nationwide shared the news on 25 March 2021 that its teams could work from anywhere. Its chief executive, Joe Garner, said: ‘The last year has taught many of us that “how” we do our jobs is much more important than 'where' we do them from… We are putting our employees in control of where they work from, inviting them to “locate for their day” depending on what they need to achieve.’
Seven months on from the announcement, this webinar will discuss:
- Nationwide’s ‘work anywhere’ approach
- what drove the change across the strategic, operational and aspirational levels
- the challenges they have faced and how they are solving them.
Speakers
Sofie Hooper
Sofie Hooper leads on the IWFM’s wider policy and public affairs work, helping to raise the voice of the Institute, its members and the wider workplace and facilities management sector. She engages with stakeholders to ensure best practice is taken on board and concerns affecting workplace and facilities professionals are mitigated.
Covering a wide range of activities and areas, sustainability, workplace and building safety form the core agenda. Sofie has been leading on IWFM’s Building Safety Manager work programme, feeding into the legislative process towards the Building Safety Bill. She provided the Secretariat for the Competence Steering Group’s Working Group 8, which developed the Building Safety Managers competence framework.
In addition to being the co-author of the Group’s report, Safer people, safer homes: Building Safety Management, she is a regular contributor to Facilitate. Building on WG8’s recommendations, Sofie is a part of the Interim Executive of the Building Safety Alliance, a cross sector collaboration which is working to improve holistic building safety competence across the occupation phase. She is also a part of the Steering Committee for the DLUCH sponsored PAS 8673, which is setting the competence specification for Building Safety Managers.
Patrick O'Farrell
Patrick is passionate about extoling the importance and value that a professional, well run facilities management function can bring to the overall operational efficiency of any business. He was the winner of a BIFM (now IWFM) Team of the Year Award in 2015, winner of Nationwide Building Society’s Team of the Year award for his team’s response to the Carillion collapse in 2018, and in recent weeks, he received another award and recognition for response to the COVID pandemic.
Outside of work, aside from holding a Bath Rugby season ticket for almost 30 years, Patrick is an active member of Rotary, holding the role of President of his local club during 2019/20.
