July 29, 2020 | permalink
Last week, the membership of CoreNet NYC invited me and NewCities to curate a session on the post-pandemic future of (white-collar) work. Rather than uncritically praise work-from-home-forever, I invited Humanyze’s Ben Waber, Plastarc’s Melissa Marsh, and Jacobs’ Andie Moeder to explore how cracks are beginning to show in organizations and the mental health of their employeers. Click to watch the video above; a longer description is below:
The conventional wisdom has spoken: offices are dead, officially killed by fears of contagion and quietly suffocated by large occupiers eager to clear their leases off the books. But just because working from home has proven surprisingly productive the last few months – at mounting personal and psychological costs – doesn’t mean organizations and their employees can maintain this pace forever. Communication patterns hint the cracks are already starting to show: ideas are being lost; dots aren’t being connected. How long and in what ways will organizations regret not working together face-to-face? What new metrics will emerge to better connect workplace design with overall performance? And what is the future for co-working and shared workspaces in a post-pandemic world of people working alone, together? Our panelists draw upon data and experience to make the case that even if the office-as-we-know-it is dead, something must replace it.
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Greg Lindsay is a generalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker. He is a non-resident senior fellow of the Arizona State University Threatcasting Lab, a non-resident senior fellow of MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab, and a non-resident senior fellow of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Strategy Initiative. He was the founding chief communications officer of Climate Alpha and remains a senior advisor. Previously, he was an urban tech fellow at Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Institute, where he explored the implications of AI and augmented reality at urban scale.
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