" Work Place of the Future"- What is it?

Work Place of the Future is a company that creates work spaces that are conducive  to the changes in todays workforce. Their goal is to increase employee competency through more "workable" office spaces. Angie Lee, who works for Smiths Group JJR ( the company that constructs Work Place of the Future) places emphasis on the importance of technology and its effect on productivity in a changing workforce. She also notes that, in todays society, employees are more interested in having a flexible workplace and work schedule.

Lee, also states that a more workable workspace will foster creativity, collaboration and innovation amongst and between workers. Retention and recruitment are also areas that benefit from a more workable workspace.  When clients come into offices that have been made to be more workable for employees, they are able to see the effort companies but into making their employees comfortable in their workspaces. This shows them the type of effort that will be but into them as clients which create better client relationships between companies and the people who they serve.

Workspace of the Future creates the perfect dichotomy between technology and the change in workforce composition.  Creating a workspace that removes employees from their traditional cubical settings will in return address the need for human competency which Berman et al. (2013) notes as a challenge within human resource management.