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What's Happened/Happening

Looking Back

We've just returned from leading a panel discussion at the recent CoreNet Global Summit in Dallas. With help from Diane Coles (SCAN Health Plan) and Edmon Hagee (Home2Office), we discussed the changing nature of work and described the workplace transformation that Diane designed and led at SCAN. That initiative has moved several hundred employees, both exempt and non-exempt, into a flexible work program that has increased employee productivity and engagement and promises an ROI of over 40%.

It's a very exciting story – so impressive that it was also the lead flexwork example in a February 26 Business Week article ("Telecommuting:  Once a Perk, Now a Necessity").

We delivered a similar presentation at the IFMA Industries Forum held in Vancouver, BC, at the beginning of April. The actual slide deck from that session is available online in a Future of Work blog post:  "Getting Real:  Transforming the Workplace at SCAN Health."

Looking Ahead

WDC is partnering with Realcomm to offer a special Future of Work Summit

We're very pleased that we have been invited by Realcomm to lead a pre-conference track at the Realcomm 2009 Summit Conference in Chicago next June. See our formal press release at this link, and look at the brochure describing the Future of Work Summit in detail here.

We are also very pleased that both ProgressiveAE and CitrixOnline are sponsoring the Future of Work Summit. And we are actively seeking additional sponsors; if you are interesting in learning more about sponsorship, please contact Jim Ware to discuss the benefits of associating with us for this very special event.

We urge you to put June 22-24 on your calendars and come join us on the 22nd for an in-depth look at the changing nature of work and its implications for workplace design and location strategies. Hope to see you there.

We also continue to travel regularly on private business with individual clients. If we're in your area and have a few minutes, we'd love to see you for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or "refreshments" any time after 5 PM local time (and you know what that means).

Give us a shout or send us a note, and if we can squeeze out some time, we'd love to say hello and share some good ideas the old-fashioned way:  face-to-face, glass in hand.

Here's what's on our calendars right now:

May and June

It's going to be a busy couple of months.

• May 5-6 we'll be in Long Beach, California, working for an individual client. It's a full two days, but if you are in the vicinity, give us a call and perhaps we can find a few minutes to bend an elbow together.
   
  
• On May 12 we'll be delivering a free webinar (registration required) sponsored by Citrix Online. The webinar is called "Corporate Agility:  Working Anywhere, Anytime." It will be hosted by PC Magazine; you can register online for free at this link. There's also a more complete description of the webinar at that link, and at on our Future of Work blog ("Register Now for Our Free May 12 Webinar on Corporate Agility").
   
  
• May 31-June 3 Charlie will be in Denver at the annual conference and exposition of the National Association of Regional Councils, a group comprised of regional economic development organizations. He'll be participating in a panel discussion on the impact of high-speed broadband on economic growth—and how to exercise leadership in creating healthy local economies by directing investments in telecommunications infrastructures.
   
  
• June 22 we'll be in Chicago (at the Hyatt Regency) leading a special pre-conference track on the future of work at the RealComm Summit 2009 North America (see the more detailed description of this program above).
   
  

Longer Term

The summer is hard to predict – no specific travel plans yet for July, and definitely not for August, but you never know where we might end up. Stay tuned for last-minute plans that depend completely on our beloved clients and prospective clients.

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