There is a lot of talk within the HR field about how the pandemic has changed work life for good. HR professionals are scenario planning for returning to the office in 2021. How can we best prepare for a great and safe employee experience returning partly to the offices? Will we ever return to the office full time again? Many say the disruption has been going on for a long enough time to create a lasting behavioural change, on scale.

We in Agile HR Community wanted to approach this as we usually do, being evidence based. So we approached our network to find the best possible evidence and insights regarding what 2021 and workplaces will look like.

We could not imagine kicking off 2021 with a more insightful event! This will prepare you as an HR professional to imagine the future of work. You’ll get inspiration, evidence and ideas on how to design a great employee experience for designing the hybrid workplace in the near future.

What we’ll cover in this meetup

Remote working has been amazing for some people and terrible for some. This is self evident, and anyone can say that. A lot of the decisions regarding workplace policies are very subjective and often reflect the human view of the management. Before the pandemic remote working was unthinkable for many companies, the policies stated that you have to be at the office. There is no way companies can justify this kind of a black-and-white policy any longer. Lasting change is a reality. But what should be prepare for? What’s working well with remote? How can we support people’s performance through a hybrid workplace?

How about taking the employee perspective into this? With a massive and recent sample?

We will get together with Peggie discuss the following themes - building on the evidence gained from Leesman’s extensive research during 2020.

Working from home : insights from 150,000 respondents in 2020.

• How have people and subgroups perceived remote working?
• What’s impacting people’s performance most when working remotely? Enablers and blockers of performance.
• Who seems to flourish working from home?
• Discussion: The great opportunity to HR to reshape our employee and working policies - the time is NOW!!

What will remote-only workplaces be missing out on?

• What could we miss out on if all work was remote?
• When do people want to be at the office?
• Discussion: How can we innovate and build fit for purpose workplaces, and working policies.

Comparisons to pre-covid office work

• Comparison between findings ref. office work and remote.
• Which activities are better supported at home vs. in the office and vice versa?
• Equivalent productivity of different tasks at the office work pre-covid, data and insights.

Conclusions : How can we design hybrid activity based workplaces for the future?

• The true Activity based workplace - Conversation.
• How can we enable our employees through the positives from both worlds remote and office), instead of getting the worst of both worlds or a dysfunctional combination of these two?

Why attend?

• Learn from Agile HR experts and leading HR professionals
• On the spot ideas and insights from world leading experts.
• Connect with global peers and share insights.

Hosts

The Agile HR Community meetups are hosted by our experienced Agile HR Licensed Trainers and founders of the Agile HR Community. Our hosts will facilitate the session’s process and the main discussion with the guest.

Guest Speaker - Dr. Peggie Rothe

Dr. Peggie Rothe is passionate about modern ways of working and the strategic role of workplaces, and she has a deep understanding of the user perspective of the built environment. As Chief Insights & Research Officer at Leesman, her role includes leading the research undertaken on the world’s largest independent workplace experience database and helping organisations understand the link between people and place.

Prior to joining Leesman in 2014, Peggie worked at Aalto University (Finland) where her research focused on corporate real estate and workplace management. She earned her doctorate in 2015 and has published her findings in several peer-reviewed academic journals.

The Leesman Index is the world’s foremost employee workplace experience assessment benchmark, equipping organisations globally with the data and insights necessary to build environments that deliver outstanding employee experience.

What is Agile HR?

Transforming the fundamental principles of HR into People Operations leading Agile, digital, and networked organisations. Agile HR aims to build a shared value between your customer, business, and people by:

• Mindset - Embracing the Agile mindset within Human Resources and people practices to incrementally deliver value to your customer.
• Co-Create - Applying Agile techniques, like Scrum and Kanban, to self-organise, experiment, and co-create directly with your people.
• Human-centric - Building awesome, people-friendly workplace practices that are validated by users
• Evidence-based - Evidence-based decision making that delivers customer value through data, people analytics, and insight.
• Agile Transformation & Leadership - Consulting on Agile and digital organisational transformation, and coaching leaders

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