As more flexible work patterns, flexible organisations and flexible buildings emerge in the wake of the global pandemic, what are the key drivers of change in 2022? In this session, Professor Jeremy Myerson, Director of WORKTECH Academy, gives a big-picture view of corporate responses to the challenge of hybrid working and looks at the key implications in terms of workplace experience, sustainability and inclusion.

Emerging post pandemic, companies are still establishing their new ‘normal’. Australia’s experience of Covid-19 provided unique challenges and opportunities. Grappling with losing connection to the rest of the world, Australia endured extensive lockdowns that shook the foundations of the workplace. Emerging from the isolation forced companies to re-think, pivot, re-invent, and pivot again to establish a new normal. Katherine explores how these insights and trends helped shape a new hybrid world of work, with case studies and portraits of the transforming landscape.

The world is transforming. From shifting industries and remote work to social unrest and economic uncertainty. Lene Becker, joins Katherine and Kasia to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic and global megatrends are impacting working life in the Nordics. Are we seeing a brake or catalyst for change for the Danish workplace?

This session explores how a leading Nordic company addressed the twin organisational challenges of enhancing user experience and maximizing space efficiency. Using the Empathic Building solution, they showcase how they help their employees decide when to come to the office, how to quickly find a desk when they arrive and how the experience is enhanced by encouraging more face-to-face team working while they are there.

This session explores hybrid work and how XR can bridge the gap between office and remote work, helping to reduce friction for collaboration and enhance colleague engagement. We explore the various technologies for enabling XR within the enterprise and present a case study on how Accenture has used this tooling throughout COVID-19 to connect teams across the globe. Attendees will develop a strong understanding of XR technologies and how they can be used to enhance hybrid working.

The recent hybrid working environment has created new challenges for leaders and employees. This session will cover the importance of wellbeing, inclusion and belonging to support productivity in hybrid environments, and will help breaking taboos & removing stigmas on conversations around mental health, no matter the working location of your employees to inspire long-lasting change.

Andreas will share details of a new Innovation LAB which physically showcases of the future of hybrid working. A place where digital and physical integrate to create exceptional client experiences; where clients can co-create solutions to problems presented by the future of work leveraging expertise and solutions from Microsoft, EY, and BLOX. It is a new way of combining forces in relation to the challenges related to future ways of working, integrating bricks, bits and behaviours.

The workplace is increasingly becoming a fluid, adaptive space where individuals and teams choose to work differently based on the nature of work and where they are most productive. We are seeing a global shift from “fixed” working to flexible dynamic working styles, resulting in different employees expectations and needs when it comes to workplace facilities. This presentation shares insights from companies who already implemented new working models, including EY, Deloitte, Microsoft, and how they’ve implemented smart storage solutions to enable their new strategies to function in practice.

The purpose of the office has changed. Hybrid Working is the term on everyone's lips but for many, big questions remain unanswered; How do you bring the workforce back into the office? and What should that office look like? Creating a truly effective workplace has always required a perfect balance between people, place, and technology. Given this most recent and dramatic global shift in the way we work, how do we now best drive communication, motivation, engagement with the right facilities, tech, tools to work, think and collaborate.

This session explores how human behaviour both reflects and influences buildings and the wider environment. We share insights and identify new ways of working with case studies from high profile global projects including Olympic House (2019), cube berlin (2020) and the Sydney Fish Market (completion in 2023).