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Future of Work is a research program focused on enhancing both individual and organizational productivity while reducing the cost of workforce support. Our clients, colleagues, and sponsors are senior HR, IT, and Facilities/Real Estate leaders and other professionals who seek new solutions to the challenges of attracting, retaining, and leveraging knowledge workers.

Future of Work is sponsored and managed by Work Design Collaborative, LLC, our legal entity. We conduct research, build and employ management tools and diagnostic instruments, convene roundtables and workshops, publish white papers and articles, and provide our organizational clients and public officials with guidance about the changing nature of work and how to manage it.

Current Programs

Our current research agenda has three primary themes:

• Managing the transition to flexible/distributed work programs
• Attracting and retaining talent (to both organizations and communities)
• Developing and implementing new kinds of distributed workplaces

We complement our formal research with a series of online polls, teleconference discussions with thought leaders, and periodic working sessions for clients and sponsors.

For a complete description of our current programs and projects, please visit our program page.

Our History

The Work Design Collaborative, which launched and manages Future of Work, is now in its seventh year of program activity. Our network includes some of the largest and most progressive organizations in North America and Europe.

WDC's principals, Charlie Grantham and Jim Ware, also serve as Executive Directors of the Workplace Innovation and Performance Network (WIPN), a professional peer network groups managed by Executive Networks. For information about joining WIPN, please contact Mike Dulworth, CEO of Executive Networks, at +1 415.812.6952.

For a more detailed description of our origins and history, go to the Our History page.

Our Principals

Charlie Grantham and Jim Ware act as "Executive Producers" of Future of Work and its sister programs, operating as a "work design" studio dedicated to helping to create the future of work.

The Workplace Innovation and Performance Network

The Workplace Innovation and Performance Network (WIPN) is a multi-company peer network. Members are typically senior executives in IT, HR, and/or Facilities and Corporate Real Estate Management who are interested in collaborative learning to help them prepare for and manage the future of work.

WIPN member organizations pay a single annual fee to participate actively in our core knowlege-building and knowledge exchange programs.They also have access to a Members-Only web-based respository and Forum that includes research reports, recordings of teleconferences, survey summaries, and a threaded discussion forum where they engage in ongoing dialogue with each other about best practices, company policies, and numerous professional challenges.

For a listing of current members of WIPN, please go to our Current Members page.

Senior Fellows

We have assembled a world-class group of thought leaders to guide our research agenda and contribute actively to our programs. Our Senior Fellows include:

• Judy Bardwick
• Sara Beckman
• Peter Cochrane
• Lynda Gratton
• Pamela Hinds
• Robin Pratt

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