Is your organization using it?  What exactly is activity based working? Activity based work is work that is focused on the activity that you are doing.  What does that mean, well we work in many ways and usually in a couple of environments.  On average we can perform up to 21 different activities on any given work day and many of us are performing these tasks within a cubical or open floor plan.  So we are working in one designed workspace to perform 21 different activities which doesn’t make much sense.  Activity based working is where the focus is on the activity you are trying to complete.  In other words, you work within a space designed for a particular activity and only that one activity.  So you would have a different space to hold conferences, another space to collaborate with co-workers, another space for quiet contemplation and so forth.

The most forward thinking organizations around the world are practicing activity based working.  It’s not about a traditional open floor plan or closed floor plan…it is about giving employees what they need to focus on the activity at hand so they can complete those activities, having multiple options to choose from depending on the activity and not being confined to just four walls.   An easy way to think of it is like this, your home is designed with different rooms with specific activities in mind.  You cook dinner in the kitchen and not in the game room.  If you use that same train of thought in the work place you will understand activity based working.  You will have board meetings in a room designed for those meetings and not in the copy room or you will make copies in the copy room and not in the breakroom.

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