Future of Workspace

Team composition

• Arjan Hannink
• Jasper Odijk
• Ron Sneijers
• Sander van den Belt
• Wojtek Chowanski

Introduction

How will the business workspace look in the next ten years.

Hopefully like this
http://download.sneijers.net/hawaii.jpg

Scope

To be filled in

Current landscape

How mobile is the European workforce? The following facts and figures give a general overview of current situation in the EU labour market.

• Job-to-job mobility
• Geographical mobility
• Cross-border workers
• Foreign language learning
• Skills & labour shortages
• Free movement and enlargement of the EU

Source: http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/workersmobility2006/fact_figures_en.htm

Research dimensions

1. Technological
2. Political and Legal
3. Enviromental
4. Economical
5. Social

Driving Forces

+++Please Order all new driving forces alphabetical+++

Guys, to avoid duplicate driving forces you also have to link your driving force at this page

Technological

• High Speed Train Network (HSL)
• Network Bandwidth
• Pay-as-you-drive
• Technological convergence
• The increase of digital developing functions in a mobile phone
• Virtual Communication
• Virtual Communities
• WiBro
• WiMAX

Political and Legal

• European integration
• European Labour Market
• World Unification

Enviromental

• Global Warming
• Global Dimming
• Green Buildings
• Green transporation mediums
• Pollution
• Public meeting spaces
• Traffic Congestion

Economical

• Business in Society
• High Speed Train Network (HSL)
• Iranian Oil Bourse
• Pay-as-you-drive
• Traffic Congestion

Social

• Aging Europe
• Business in Society
• Emergence of new Technology Related Diseases
• immigration
• Increasing Mobility
• Mobile workplace
• People's need for communication and information
• Power of Information-anywhere, everywhere
• The Globalization of Culture (or Cultural Globalization)
• The Language Barrier
• Urbanization and Social Status

Research questions

Technological

• What's the most promising emerging technology to support virtual communication and doing business?
• How will the future workscape be equiped? Which devices will be used?
• What kind of technological infrastructure is needed to support the future workspace?
• What role will security play in the future workspace?
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Political and Legal

• What are the effects of unequal minimum wages between European countries on the workspace?
• How can you find harmony between European countries on regulations and legislation concerning the workspace with respect to country's sovereignty?
• What’s the role of the European Union on the workspace? How can they support it and how can they thwart it?
• How will political/international relations affect the future workspace?
• What sorts of initiatives are being carried out by other governmental institutions around the world?
• Legal and regulatory constraints on the application and implementation of a future workspace

Enviromental

• How will enviromental legislature affect the bottom line of our company?
  
• How will Kyoto protocol affect operating costs of an office building?
  
• What future enviromental protection legislature will have an affect on transporation to/from our place of work?
  
• How will alternative sources of energy affect the way we work?
  
• What are the most serious affects of our workspace on the environment?

Economical

• What will the general European economical developments most likely be within the coming decade?
• How will the general European economical development affect the future of the workspace?
• How will the future workspace contribute to the economical direction and position of Europe?
  

Social

• How could religion affect possible implications in a future workspace?
  
• Will there be a standard language in a multi-cultural company?
  
• How does the future workspace influence the client/colleque relationship?
  
• How will a future workspace change the organisational hierarchy?
  
• How do you control and manage employees when you can work anywhere anytime?
  
• How will a future workspace affect the training process?
• How will a future workspace affect knowledge sharing within the corporation and within the entire supply chain of companies?
• How will immigration and people with other cultural backgrounds affect the future workspace?
  
  

Scenarios

++Scenario 1 Assumptions++

- Improving mobility of workforce - Less flexible state of organizations - Standardized state of mobile technology - Dissolving state of the EU - More flexible state of society - Low liberation of labor laws - Declining state of economy - Stable state of environment +People are ready, business / Europe is not+

References

Articles

• 3rd wave of Internet and collaborative working environments (PDF)
• Ambient Intelligence: The evolution of technology, communication and cognition towards the future of human-computer interaction
• Application Scenarios for Next Generation Collaborative Working Environments 2005 - 2010 (PDF)
• Collaboration@Work Report 2005 (PDF)
• Collaborative Solutions in the Single European Electronic Market (SEEM). Strategy vision and Research challenges. (PDF)
• Legal and regulatory constraints on the application and implementation of IST research results that may affect their impact on knowledge society development through new working environments (PDF)
• Report on Next Generation Collaborative Working Environments 2005 - 2010
• Section IV: Ambient Intelligence In Practice: Future Perspectives And Applications; Chapter 13 : "AMI-endowed Collaboration@Work (PDF)
• Successfully crossing frontiers in IT - working in research. Information Society Marie Curie Industry Host Fellowships and Training Accompanying Measures. (PDF)

Books

• The Sixth Sense: Accelerating Organizational Learning with Scenarios (ISBN: 0-470-84491-4)

Websites

• Aviva Forward Thinking - The economist
• EU - Towards a european labour market
• Global Business Network Documents
• PWC - International mobility insight
• Scenario Thinking Portal

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