The hybrid office: does it work? Doesn’t it? How should it work? The conversation at
Many of the models, approaches and strategies, as well as cases in point presented, were of the cutting-edge variety. It gave the audience an insight into what is possible and offered a stark counterpoint to what one speaker referred to as “original reality” (real life, as opposed to virtual reality).
With so much to absorb across the 9+ hours of knowledge shared, here are five things that really stuck with me.
1. What does hybrid mean, anyway?
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All the survey results that I have absorbed in the past month point towards roughly half of all workers choosing to work hybrid. Choice is the common theme here. And as Matthew Myerson of the
2. Don’t be scared of AI
AI is here and everyone who is brave enough to jump in feet first is having a dabble with it. The possibilities for what AI can do for business’ productivity and prosperity are indeed exciting. But a few things to take note of: know the AI’s limitations – because it does have limitations – and take advantage of its capabilities. AI is still gearing up in the area of ethics. In the long term, says Eduard Hovy, executive director of Melbourne Connect at the University of Melbourne, we will most likely see people with their own personal ‘chatbots’ which are individualised to tasks and users.
3. Why your desking must be awesome
Aaron Taylor-Harvey, creative director of
4. Employee experience is vital
We talk about this a lot in our upcoming issue of
Culture and purpose, which have long been treated as intangible qualities that we experience and cultivate through our togetherness at work, have come to the fore as qualities that must be articulated and built out through storytelling and empathetic leadership styles. Melissa Marsden, director of COMUNiTI, and author of
5. Quay Quarter Tower won World Building Of The Year 2022 for good reason
This community-oriented vertical village in Sydney’s CBD has been touted as humanising the high rise. It’s also impressive for its carbon saving qualities. 3XN partner, Gry Kjær, presented a case study of the building and shared many statistics that reveal just how architecture has been able to redevelop this legacy high rise in an environmentally positive manner. 3XN with its projects partners retained 65 per cent of the original building structure (beams, columns, and slabs), and 95 per cent of the original core. This has resulted in an embodied carbon saving of 12,000 tonnes. That’s the equivalent of 35,000 flights between Sydney and Melbourne. And you can’t really argue with that. Read Indesignlive’s QQT
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