workplace of the future - jack mortimer

7/27/2019 Workplace of the Future - Jack Mortimer

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Flexible Workstyles in Government

Is It Time Yet?

Jack Mortimer, Government Technology Magazine


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Major shift

Start: 90% of labor force

End: 29%

Now: 1%

Farmers


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Electricity Telephone

Automobile Computers Wireless

Internet Social networking

Technology milestones


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Shifting back?


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Peter Drucker

The only thing we know about the

future is that it will be different.


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People

Technology

Two predictors:


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PEOPLE

as a predictor ofworkplace trends


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Five generations are common


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Federal Workforce

Millennials

Gen X

Boomers

Silent


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Each generation operates

very differently.

Particularly the millennials.


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A workplace tailored by

boomers.

But one size does not fit all.


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TECHNOLOGY

as a predictor ofworkplace trends


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Devices


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Smart surfaces


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Internet in contact lens


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Integrated into brain


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The writing is on the wall


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Teleworking


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Teleworking drivers

Cloud

Mobility

Quality of life Green

Cost of office space

Continuity Productivity

Recruitment and retention


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Federal mandate

December 9, 2010 President Obamasigned the Telework Enhancement Act of

2010.

It requires every government employee to

telecommute to the maximum extentpossible.

Its about creating a culture where work iswhat you do, not where you are.

President Barack Obama


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Increased productivity: $4.6 billion

Office costs: $0.8 billion

Absenteeism: $2.3 billion

Annual turnover: $3.1 billion

Oil: $0.5 billion

Road travel: 2.3 billion miles

Lives: 1,900

Greenhouse gases: 1 million tons

GSA estimates that if all federal employees who wanted

to work from home did so just one day a week, annual

savings would be:


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VIRGINIA INFORMATION

TECHNOLOGIES AGENCY

257 employees

174 teleworkers (68%)


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3

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51


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Will some abuse it?

Yes. But only a few.


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What about public perception?

Possible trouble?

Highly unlikely.


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CONTROVERSY?


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Get more creativeand collaborative!

Get more done!


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American Express found

43%

Productivity


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Top 100 Companies

84%offer telecommuting benefits.


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Last month: Georgia

Teleworking Week

Coca Cola; AT&T Mobility, SunTrust.

Atlanta: 600,000 commuters

(25%) telework at leastoccasionally


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WHAT ABOUT

Collective bargaining? Labor laws?

HR policies?


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Flex time


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RECRUITMENT & RETENTION


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Attracting (and keeping) theworkforce ofthe future.


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Silicon Valley companies are swooping in

and scooping up potential employees.

Hiring is hot again for the tech sector

Meals, iPads used to lure tech workers


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Millennials are not patiently workingtheir way through the organizational

hierarchy, but are instead moving on

quickly when they see no clear cutadvantages personally, professionally, or

financiallyto staying.

Federal CIO Council


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Cant compete with privatesector salaries?

35% would give up 10% of their salary

to telework.


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Fitting everyone into the samemold wont be possible

much longer.

One size does not fit all.


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This is an opportunity to modernizethe workplace with...

FLEXIBILITY!!!


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