Change in the Workplace –what motivates people at work?
“For the vast majority of organisations their human capital is their most valuable and important asset… the workplace needs to be seen as an investment to unlock the value of this human capital.” Colin Stuart, Value Rhetoric and Cost Reality, 2012 Work places have evolved throughout history, but not always to the benefit of worker […]
With unlimited vacation, when will the work get done?
Richard Branson, the Virgin Group founder, was in the news recently as he had taken the bold move of giving his staff unlimited vacation time. But he is not the first to take such an enlightened step. A growing number of organisations are finding that by trusting their staff, the rewards to the business in […]
Reeducation, Reeducation, Reeducation: Graduates In The Workplace
In this article, we question whether the design of our current workplaces is getting the most the new crop of “generation Z” graduates entering our workplace? Many modern workplaces are still designed on archaic “Taylorist” production line principles that are not tuned to get the best out of these new graduates entering the workforce. Our […]
