Workplace Futures

Towards Tomorrow's Sustainable Workplace- Imagineering a Sustainable Workplace Future

In the Second Futures Workshop, the drivers and issues for creating a sustainable Workplace were identified. Following the three different 2030 scenarios, Jazz, Wise Counsels and Dantesque - discussed at the first workshop - findings in 2008 show that changes in the Workplace are driven by several factors and will probably lead to a sustainable development at the Workplace. 

Discover the development of the three scenarios and the Workplace in 2030:

The Hive, Eco-Office and Gattaca

Scenario One: Jazz

THE HIVE: agility, anonymity and access - "The networked hive Workplace structure"

  • By 2030 the corporate office no longer exists
  • By 2020, the bubble workplace environment had become a permanent setting for knowledge workers

 

As major disasters strikes our society, homeworking became a welcoming refuge arranged as bubbles to form building blocks for international commerce which empower a new era of entrepreuneurialship. With a revolutionary technological advance in neuro technologies, a new working environment provides the knowledge worker with the ability of controlling the workspace from a neuro-headset. By 2025, climate change had turned on its heels, and upon the emergence of the networked hive Workplace structure, transport use went into decline as this type of distributed Workplace encouraged all actions to occur under one roof. The work/life balance debate is now resolved and what emerges from this is a more committed and productive workforce.


Scenario Two: Wise Counsels

THE ECO-OFFICE: a radical form of industrial democracy and corporate re-engineering - "A new work style, from a knowledge revolution to a wisdom revolution"

  • By 2030, a radical form of industrial democracy and corporate re-engineering
  • By 2012, the eco-office emerged as the promary workspace and work style across the globe

 

As a radical form of industrial democracy and corporate re-engineering took place, a new work style emerged, wherewith the employees were given a greater voice in how to improve business outcomes through hard times. By 2012, the eco-office emerged as the primary workspace and work style across the globe. Sophisticated and innovative ICT appeared, which enabled more employees to have the option of telecommunicating their work from outside the office. Eco-offices, similar to hotels were created, that provided good services to improve quality of life and work and to attract the top talent. The emergence of new Workplace structures, life-long learning and corporate culture appear to lead the direction from a knowledge revolution to a wisdom revolution.

Scenario Three: Dantesque

GATTACA: the rise of the corporate office- "A 'swarm' society, grouped together on the basis of shared interests and commercial affinities"

  • By 2030, the corporation emerges as an all fearing entity
  • By 2030, the workplace is similar to a production line in a manufacturing plant

 

As the corporate society became a power to be reckoned with, corporations emerged as an all fearing entity. Businesses and people start to exhibit characteristics of a ‘swarm’ society, grouping together on the basis of shared interests and commercial affinities. By 2020, the corporation is established and advertised as a fully integrated, self-managed real estate and personnel investment trust that focuses on the acquisition, development, ownership, and management of property, processes and people that inspire success in trade, the markets and business operations. FM primary focus is on access and information protection and not the Workplace as such, subsequently, resulting in a degradation of work ethics and health and safety procedures.

 

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