Join the Future of Work Trends Briefing Launch Event on Monday 2nd August 5-6pm BST

In this session, Philip Ross will share how marginal ideas have become mainstream and by sharing an overview of emerging trends and latest innovations shaping the world of work, he will paint a portrait of the transforming landscape and share tools on how companies can embrace the New World of Work to create new paradigms for workplace.

Professor Sir Cary Cooper will explore how the world of work has transformed in light of the coronavirus pandemic and the impending Recession. Drawing on his expertise in Organizational Psychology & Health, Cary will examine what the world of work will look like in the future in the context of workplace wellbeing.

With the inexorable rise of machines, to continue to dedicate people solely to routine work has diminishing returns, especially when the human competitive advantage – our ability to navigate and understand the unknown – is the best asset organisations have to figure out the future. In rapidly changing environments where workers face unforeseen problems and businesses confront new challenges, the most valuable form of work is creating value. To give your organisation a competitive edge, key insights from the latest research will show you how to empower your people and reimagine your workplace.

McChrystal will share a new philosophy for leadership and team curation, whereby the role of leaders is to boost team morale, inspire and motivate. In the context of the pandemic crisis, Philip Ross and General Stanley McChrystal will discuss the importance of adaptability for organisations to become more resilient in the future and how leaders can make adjustments to deliver clear and actionable information.

Since the start of the pandemic, the boundary between work and life has dramatically shifted. Many employees have struggled to balance work, caregiving and mental health, while the corresponding economic slowdown adds a new level of stress to our cities and communities. How will this experience shape the return to the office, and how will our priorities change? With a renewed focus on work-life integration, employers have an opportunity to strengthen connections with their employees.

Work has transformed more than any of us felt possible in the last few months. But what are the long-term consequences? How can we build energised, positive productive workplaces. What does the future of workplace culture

A significant number of employees and companies are adapting what is being called a “Hybrid” working model, where employees are on site less than full time. One particularly thorny issue that arises, is the challenge of collaboration across locations. In this talk, I will overview the work we have been doing with numerous fortune 500 companies across industries to define hybrid work and its implications for workplace, share key insights on remote-participant needs, and provide a glimpse into some experiments we are running around an integrated approach to enable hybrid collaboration.

In 2020, the majority of the world’s workforce went remote. This “State of Remote Work 2021” projects future flexible workplace rates, and what impact the hypergrowth of remote will have on our global socioeconomics.

"Unprecedented" may be the most overused word of 2020, but COVID-19 workplace data trends are truly like nothing Gallup has ever seen. Gallup has been continuously tracking the engagement and wellbeing of the U.S. workforce since 2009 and among the most important discoveries is a trend we call the "Wellbeing-Engagement Paradox." Typically, there is a reciprocal link between employee engagement and wellbeing. However, in 2020, employee engagement and wellbeing became disconnected from each other and this divergence presents critical implications for workplace leaders in the coming year.

Dr Katelyn Dowling believes that the future of work must involve healing as an explicit goal. This is more important now than ever as prevalence rates of depression have tripled since COVID-19. In a VUCA world (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous), Katelyn argues that we must reimagine the role of the workplace in the fabric of society. People spend approx. ⅓ of their lives in the workplace, so work has the potential to be a key stressor or a source of healing. In this session, Katelyn will redefine “healing” as an umbrella term allowing for community resilience and stress reduction.

Twenty years since the original prediction and release of the ground-breaking book Death of Distance, Dame Frances will share her thoughts…. Is Distance finally Dead? Will Covid-19 lead to long term change for people and cities? What will be the future for economic and civic life? What are the most significant changes in the way we live and work? Dame Frances will explore all this and its impact across the globe.

Major League Baseball and ESI Design take you on a behind-the-scenes look at the design of MLB’s new headquarters in New York, exploring ideas for creating an office that employees want to return to. Timeless design and branded digital experiences reuniting employees with their passionate fandom, making the workplace a destination.

We will explore leading smart buildings and their innovations that have previously disrupted the market or are set to influence the future of the industry in the coming months and years.

In this session Uli will showcase the award-winning work by Zaha Hadid Architects and discuss the future of office buildings and how they are developing in a global context. He will examine Case Studies from China including the Soho Galaxy commercial tower in Beijing and the Infinitus Ground Scraper. Describing the key factors in workplace design as visibility, light penetration and communication potential; he explores how computational workplace tools, data analytics, sensor technology, and smart algorithms will impact how we design and what we design, to help shape the workplaces of tomorrow

The global Covid pandemic has taught us all a lesson in flexibility, showing that indeed we can work from home (if we must). Yet what is missing, when no one meets in unplanned ways, is creative friction and opportunities for the unknown to unfold. In this talk Dr Kerstin Sailer takes stock of what the office is good for and argues that innovation requires physical space. In so doing, she offers a way to think about a different kind of post-pandemic office, one that is based on the benefits of being together.

O+A sees the new workplace as an environment shaped by what the crisis taught us to value most. It will be a workplace that is healthier, more deliberate, more agile, and more inclusive than the workplace that preceded it. This is an opportunity to make the working world what we want it to be; to upgrade the pre-crisis workplace and add the discoveries that emerged from working at home and counting on technology. Join Primo Orpilla as he presents a new series of space types that will shape the work environment going forward in a new era of workplace design.

During this discussion Simon and Jeremy examine the global challenges we face, addressing subjects such as low carbon futures, sustainability, diversity in workplace, health, wellbeing and education, questioning whether architecture is part of the problem or the solution in our post pandemic world.

The way we live, work, and play is very different today than it was just a few decades ago, thanks in large part to a network of connectivity that now encompasses most people on the planet. In a similar way, today we are at the beginning of a new technological revolution: The Internet is entering the physical space – the traditional domain of architecture and design – becoming an “Internet of Things” or IoT.
This session will explore and discuss different ways to redesign our cities and facilities for the post-coronavirus era and the new technologies’ impact on urban life.

This end user panel discussion will bring together workplace leaders to discuss the Work From Anywhere Model and its impact on the corporate office.

After 25 years at 1 Jermyn Street, McKinsey moves to a new office located in London’s Knowledge Quarter –a cluster of over 100 academic, cultural, research, scientificand media organisations. The new office showcases McKinsey’s expansion of its client offering from beyond traditional strategy consulting into profession-leading capabilities in digital transformation, advanced analytics, capability building and design.

Sir Stuart Lipton has been at the forefront of innovation, place-making, planning and industry leadership, and at the centre of creating a large proportion of London’s most iconic developments. Sir Stuart will open the event by sharing his vision for the future of smart buildings and how this shaped 22 Bishopsgate – the most eagerly anticipated addition to urban landscape in a long time.

People returning to office buildings post-pandemic will want to work in smart environments that support learning, creativity and natural wellbeing, and are radically inclusive and green. 22 Bishopsgate partnered with WORKTECH Academy to commission five Workplace Design Journals on these themes from five leading design firms. On this panel, experts join Academy Director Jeremy Myerson to discuss the changing parameters of office design in response to heightened employee needs and expectations.

The dynamic of change in the post-COVID-19 era will combine new technologies, revised business priorities and shifting demographics leading to the 100 year life. But advances in technology and longevity have not been matched by supporting innovations to our social structures. Lynda Gratton looks at new leadership strategies as a path out of crisis.

These unprecedented times have changed how we connect, work and use technologies (often not yet fit for purpose), in an ever-changing environment. Drawing on 30 years of industry experience, Dr Kerr will unveil the importance of understanding the neuroscience of human connection which can help us build and lead positive remote and hybrid workplaces that fosters trust, commitment and resilience, and leverage technology and skills as a true enabler.

The future of work can often feel uncertain and complex. Emerging technologies, cultural changes, geopolitical conflicts, climate disruptions and shifting economies can feel overwhelming and bleak. But what if you could think like a futurist, exploring a range of possible and potential futures? What if you had the ability to envision the future you want and the tools to get you there? Futurist and author Brian David Johnson will show you how to think like a futurist, dispelling myths about the future and exploring what he sees coming for the future of work.

The future of work is not just about AI, automation and The Singularity. It's also about getting the most value out of human qualities that computers can't emulate -the desire to explore, to create, to play. It's a future in which technologies and humans interact to discover brave new worlds, possibilities and futures together. More Star Trek than The Matrix. This talk will examine the 5 types of applied intelligence in contemporary workplaces, and explore how we might design and use space and technology to enable the higher, value-creating forms, and avoid the energy-draining, inhumane ones.

Gillian Tett shares insights from The Silo Effect and her upcoming book Anthro-Vision, examining how our tendency to create functional departments – silos – hinders our work. In an age when technology, big data, and financial analysis defines business decision-making, Gillian presents a different idea: businesses can revolutionize their understanding of human behaviour by studying consumers and organizations through an anthropological lens. By making the familiar seem unfamiliar and vice versa, she offers a 3D perspective in a world where many executives are plagued by tunnel vision.

Dr. Douglas Terrier will discuss how America’s Space Program has created new business practices and operations during the pandemic. Learn how NASA is embracing digital transformation, a critical operational and culture change necessary for continued American space leadership in the 21st century. Terrier will also share insights on NASA’s Artemis Program to return astronauts to the Moon and explore how NASA spinoff technologies have resulted in viable commercial products and services used in our everyday lives.

The global pandemic has presented all of us with an opportunity to rethink workplace strategy by putting humans at the centre of workplace design. EY’s goal is to work with organizations to create a better working world for everyone. This session will explore the results of EY’s Work Reimagined Study 2021 of more than 16,000 employees in 16 countries. The study outlines how new ways of working, family responsibilities and a number of other factors have shifted workers’ priorities, driving them to demand flexibility in where and when they work, improvements in how they work and the technology.