Maximizing and Measuring the People, Planet and Profit Impact of Workforce Flexibility
In most organizations, workforce flexibility isn't a structured program that leads to people working wherever and whenever. It just happens as a result of the mobile tools that make it possible. By simply letting it happen, rather than making it happen, organizations miss out on potential cost savings, attraction and retention opportunities, increased productivity and engagement, environmental impacts and more. In this session, explore the triple bottom line benefits of flexible workplace strategies.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify strategies to gain executive buy-in for workplace change in general, and flexible workplace strategies in particular.
- Examine and appraise the significance of involving Human Resources, Information Technology, Corporate Real Estate and other functional areas of the organization in workplace change initiatives.
- Describe why and provide examples of the importance to establish goals and measurable results.
Kate Lister
Kate Lister is a recognized workplace thought leader and president of Global Workplace Analytics, a research-based consulting firm that has been helping communities and organizations optimize flexible and distributed workplace strategies for more than fifteen years. She has written or co-authored five business books including the U.S. chapter of “Telework in the 21st Century” (Edward Elgar, 2019), a multi-country peer-reviewed study on remote work. Her perspectives on how COVID-19 will change the way people work have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and dozens of other respected news outlets. In July of 2020, she was one of only three witnesses invited to testify before a U.S. Senate committee on the expansion of telework in government post-COVID-19.
Cynthia Milota
As Director of Ware Malcomb’s Workplace Strategy and Change Management practice, Cynthia and her team deliver human-centered, experience-based work environments. She partners with clients to formulate their unique objectives: mindful of wellness, culture, talent strategy and success measures. She has held roles as the consultant and as the workplace strategist for a Fortune 500 financial services organization. She has published and presented her research at academic and professional conferences, held adjunct faculty positions, served on juries and editorial review teams. She currently serves on the International Facilities Management Association-Workplace Evolutionaries global board in Membership / Analytics and is the co-chair of the Environmental Design Research Association’s Workplace Environment Network.