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Futures Workshops
Three times a year, leading academics and experts from international corporations come together to discuss the future of global workplaces. In collaboration with The Futures Academy at the Dublin Institute of Technology, the findings are summarised in the 'Futures Report'.
The Report:
The Report:
- Explores the changing context and nature of the workplace
- Identifies challenges and issues faced by a global workplace solution
- Examines current and emerging trends
- Builds a roadmap for the future to support business success
The Smart Workplace in 2030
Johnson Controls hosted the third in a series of futures workshops study aimed at anticipating the possible long term implications of the current global trends on the workplace and exploring how technologies will impact on tomorrow’s workplace to create The Smart Workplace we all anticipate.
From industrial age to knowledge age
Workplaces have undergone dramatic changes during the last number of decades as society makes the transition from an industrial age to a knowledge age.
In the wake of these transformations, new work styles, locations and patterns are underpinning the changes being experienced in the workplace today. This is giving rise to a better connected, more competitive and increasingly complex work environment including key features like
- the emerging trend of knowledge work
- the changing demand for flexible employment contracts giving rise to leaner organisations and
- the increased number of mobile workers.
Employees in 2030 are self-regulated, collaborative and communicative
The Smart Workplace of 2030 can be defined as the provision of a workplace infrastructure that empowers employees through self-regulation, engages employees through collaboration and communication, promotes a strong environmental ethic and sustains organisational agility, all of which are enabled through the adoption and implementation of new technology platforms.The Smart Workplace of 2030 will see:
- A complex and competitive world focused on collaboration, innovation and creativity
- An industry focused on knowledge and co-creativity
- A culture for collaboration and collective intelligence
The Smart Workplace of 2030 will present the following characteristics:
- The permanent physical location of work will be The Hive
- Work will grow through Cloud Networks
- The Eco Office will become an intelligent growth zone where individual with a common interest meet and collaborate
- Gattacas will be at the size of cities – highly secured mega cities divided into smart zones
- Collective knowledge will form a powerful collective intelligence, automatically scanned, recorded and classified
