Utilise tech to enable hybrid/remote working with our new guidance: ‘Simplifying technology’ in partnership with Ricoh

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  • Future of work,
  • Technology

16 June 2021

Simplifying technology

The eighth guidance note from our ‘Creating better workplaces’ partnership with Ricoh is available now to help you make the successful transition to hybrid working and other forms of flexible working where some of your people work remotely.

With many organisations indicating they intend to shift to hybrid working – mixing work between home and the office - post-pandemic, ‘Simplifying technology’ looks at how technology can be used to enable this, so that working in a more hybrid way becomes a seamless experience.

 

 

 

 

The first part of the guidance discusses the role that technology can play in improving peoples’ experiences of the corporate office and help workplace and facilities management professionals to optimise the use of workspaces. The second part explores the role that technologies can play beyond the corporate office, in enabling and supporting remote working and hybrid teams.

The overall aim of this guidance note is to provide workplace and facilities professionals with a better understanding of the role that technology can play in enabling a more hybrid workplace, so that they can have more informed conversations with colleagues and clients. It will also help to adopt a more critical perspective on the role and impact of technology in the workplace.

Discover the full ‘Creating better workplaces’ series

Our ‘Creating better workplaces’ guidance notes have been designed to be used as standalone resources or together as a series. Together, the guidance notes focus on the issues that organisations should pay attention to when changing existing workplaces or developing new ones. Previous guidance notes in the series include:

  1. ‘Introduction to workplace’ explains what workplace is and the importance of viewing workplace in a joined-up way
  2. ‘Workplace data and decision-making’ discusses the role that data can play in helping organisations to make more informed workplace decisions
  3. ‘Selling your workplace vision’ explains how to communicate the value of workplace authoritatively and persuasively, and create a convincing case for change
  4. ‘Creating better workspaces’ is about helping non-designers to have a positive influence on the design of the workspaces they are involved with or responsible for
  5. ‘Leading successful workplace change’ provides guidance on the processes of change and practical ideas for bringing about effective workplace change
  6. ‘Empowering people’ discusses changing attitudes towards flexible and distributed working and considers the critical role that culture plays in enabling or hindering changes to working practices in organisations
  7. ‘Optimising workplaces’ explores what future changes in working practices could mean for the corporate workspaces most organisations inhabit.

Visit our ‘Creating better workplaces’ hub in partnership with Ricoh to find out more.