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Introducing our
new website with great new tools!
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Welcome to our new look Strategic Workforce Planning
News, updated to match our expanded and updated website!
Workforce Planning Advisor
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A new online tool that
asks questions about your organisation, team and
process, and gives you suggestions about ways you could
improve
your workforce planning
initiative, and what your next steps are.
This electronic advisor is available to you 24 hours a
day - free.
Expanded Resources Directory
- we've added new resources like whitepapers, articles, industry analysis and
an archive of all of our newsletters. The Resources Directory allows you to
find them all in a heartbeat.
Blog and Online Forum
- So much is happening in Strategic Workforce Planning that it's hard to get
all of the news out only once a month, and it's hard to get together and
network enough, so we have introduced a blog to allow all of us to network
online, and allow us to get our research, hints and tips to you as they come to
us.
Workforce Forecaster
- Enter your HR figures and see where your current trends are taking your
workforce in the next three years.
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Workplace
Strategy - Do You Have One?
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This month's
Future of Work newsletter referred us to some research on the causal
relationship between workplace design and business results - and of course we
wanted to hear more. According to the research:
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Workplace
StrategyThe
dynamic alignment of an organizationÍs work patterns with the work environment
to enable peak performance and reduce costs.
A succinct report, this article from Audrey Schreifer
includes:
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Discussion about flexible, collaborative and
distributive work design
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A list of "seven myths" about workplace strategy,
including cost, hoteling and other issues
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The financial, social, physical, and technical components of the
work environment (and their interrelatedness)
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The need for an interdisciplinary team
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Stories of workplace solutions across industries
The report concludes:
"We are at a tipping point where these innovative concepts
will become basic requirements. Workplace strategy is a
triple win. Organizations like it because it enhances their
ability to hire and retain key employees, increases
productivity and saves money. Employees find it easier to
collaborate and to balance work/life issues. The natural
environment is also a winner as commuting requirements are
reduced, and mobility becomes a key driver of the elusive
ñpaperless office.î"
If you are looking at
how your work and workplace is designed, this report might
give you some new ideas, and help you build a business case
for implementing new practices. Let us know what you think,
and be sure to contact us if you need any help with
it!
Read
the article
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"The Internet...accentuates what you
would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want
to connect, it makes it easier to connect"
Esther Dyson
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Next month we're going to have a look at the emerging
phenomenon of homesourcing, where workers (especially in call
centres) are based in their own homes
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