The document discusses how the modern workplace is becoming increasingly flexible, connected, and mobile. It notes key trends like the rise of social networks and digital technologies that allow work to be done anytime and anywhere. The Future Workspaces program aims to understand how these changes are impacting work relationships and settings. It seeks to create opportunities to improve work flexibility and effectiveness by investigating the balance between physical and virtual work and personal life. The goal is to contribute insights and solutions to help organizations and workers adapt to these new realities of work.

1. www.futureworkspaces.nl
marcel.bijlsma@telin.nl

2. New world of work: flexible workforce

3. New world of work: flexible organisations

4. New world of work: flexible people

5. An “Always connected” world
• Social Networks

6. An “Always connected” world
• Social Networks
• Anytime/Anywhere

7. An “Always connected” world
• Social Networks
• Anytime/Anywhere
• Across boundaries

8. An “Always connected” world
• Social Networks
• Anytime/Anywhere
• Across boundaries
• eXperience

9. An “Always connected” world
• Social Networks
• Anytime/Anywhere
• Across boundaries
• eXperience
• Mix digital and real

10. An “Always connected” world
• Social Networks
• Anytime/Anywhere
• Across boundaries
• eXperience
• Mix digital and real
• Work-Life

11. demographic change
– The Net Generation
social change
– new social networks
economic change
– Wikinomics
always connected
But, in the end it is about people!
flexibility
environmental change
– sustainability technology change – Web 2.0

13. The Future Workspaces innovation program
• An open public-private innovation program managed
by Telematica Instituut
• An ecosystem of partners interested in future working
environments and the challenges regarding new ways
to organise work
• Human centred, ICT empowered
• A short term focus via business-driven cases
combined with a longer term focus via a vision-driven
research agenda
• Close collaboration with end-users in companies

14. Future Workspaces: In a nutshell…
To understand the
To understand the
motives behind current
motives behind current
work settings and work
work settings and work
relations
relations
Investigate the new balance
Investigate the new balance
between physical and virtual
between physical and virtual
activities, work and private life
activities, work and private life
Create opportunities to
Create opportunities to
improve effectiveness and
improve effectiveness and
flexibility of current and
flexibility of current and
future work
future work

15. Future Workspaces focuses on….
demographic change
– The Net Generation
social change
– new social networks
open
organizations
economic change
– Wikinomics
dealing
dealing dealing
dealing
with tools and
with tools and with
with
information
information knowledge
knowledge
Working
Working Mixing
Mixing
underway
underway work-private
work-private
Working on
Working on Fragmentation
Fragmentation
new locations
new locations of work
of work
mobility work-life
environmental change
technology change – Web 2.0
– sustainability

16. Future Workspaces wants to…
• Join forces: give and take insights and experiences
• Activate new ways of working
• Generate smart solutions
• Provide “How to” answers to really make steps
• Demonstrate potential and impact of new developments
• Research the needed new capabilities of workers and
organisations towards the future
• Contribute to the public debate and influence policy
agendas
• Create new alliances between partners