Manifesto for agile workplace

I was sent this study yesterday from the Career Innovation Group, the company that wrote the most recent BT social media case study. It’s a Manifesto for the new Agile Workplace (link downloads 1MB pdf file) which I think makes an enormous amount of sense.

I notice it was produced in partnership with BT, but I had nothing to do with it personally.

Apart from revealing some shocking dissatisfaction levels among knowledge workers, it offers six ways to create an agile workplace. These are:

• work should be defined in roles that play to people’s strengths
• most employers don’t need exclusive control
• design learning into work
• define work in projects, not weeks or years
• work comitments can be fitted to phase of life
• we can choose where we work most productively.

OK … these may not all be new concepts, but together they paint a very powerful picture of how work could, and in my view, should be.