Jacob Morgan | Best-Selling Author, Speaker, & Futurist | Leadership | Future of Work | Employee Experience

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The Future in 5

Why You Should Treat Your Physical Office Space Like A House

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When you think about designing your house and floor plan, you consider how every room has a different purpose. You eat in the dining room, cook in the kitchen, lounge in the living room, shower in the bathroom, sleep in the bedroom, and you may even have outdoor living spaces that serve different purposes like relaxing or al fresco dining. So when we are designing our physical office spaces, why don’t we take the same approach? There is a lot of debate over having an open versus closed office floor plan, but those debates are missing the point. […]

Employee experience, Future of work

How The Physical Workspace Impacts The Employee Experience

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This is part of a series of posts exploring the employee experience, that is, creating a place where employees actually want to show up, not where they need to show up. This series will explore what I define as the three employee experience environments that all organizations much focus on which are: physical, cultural, and technological. This is a growing area that I am extremely passionate about because it sees organizations shifting away from thinking of work as a utility to actually focusing on creating what Pat Wadors (the chief Human Resources Officer of Linkedin) calls “beautiful experiences.”

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The Office Space Isn’t Dead, It’s Making A Comeback

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Over the past few years there have been many discussions around the death and disappearance of the office. Most believed that with co-working locations, the spread of Wi-Fi and mobility, and the rise of co-working locations that there would be no need for an office anymore. We would all work from anywhere and everywhere and this was of course a fair and reasonable prediction. But, it’s not entirely true. Our traditional idea of an office is in fact disappearing, that is the row of cubicles lined in a building that looks and smells like a hospital but the office itself is far from dead![…]

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The Future Of Work Show, Episode 10: Inside SAP

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Join me as I go inside the offices of one of the world’s leading technology companies, SAP to see what they think about the future of work. SAP is an organization that is truly thinking about and investing in the future of work with their office designs, focus on attracting millennials, culture of learning and education, diversity programs, and their integration of technology in how work gets done. I tour several of their office buildings, speak with employees, and also interview their Chief Learning Officer (Jenny Dearborn) to get various perspectives on how SAP sees the workplace changing and what they are doing to adapt and prepare. This is a fun and informative episode that you won’t want to miss! […]

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