Work 20XX with Jeff Frick

Andreas Hoffbauer, Founder & Director of Atelier Kultur has built a business helping organizations leverage organizational sociology best practices to build better networks in and around their organizations, to increase the discovery and dissemination of knowledge, reinforce and grow culture, and thrive in these increasingly dynamic times. Networks, and networking, be they physical or digital, fac...

Time for Episode 13, and not knowing the level of superstition with my guests, going solo for episode 13.  A quick update on some of the lessons learned through the first 12 episodes, and making a slight course correction as we work through season 2.  Also reviewing lessons learned through the first twelve episodes including async, communication, office, meetings, learning, career, hybrid, remote,...

Kate Lister | Research, People, Trust | Work 20XX #12 For decades,  Kate Lister,  President of Global Workplace Analytics, has been studying human productivity, workplace, and the benefits of employees spending less time in traditional offices. She reminds us that  'telecommuting' was coined by Jack Nilles in 1973. Her specialty is research… she and her team have been mining thousands of research...

Dave Cairns, SVP Office Leasing for CBRE Canada, leasing office space to some of the largest companies with a presence in Toronto, squeezed eight years of traditional office time between a very unconventional post-college career in poker, and more recently, embarking on a 'digital home-ad' life while taking a leadership position on commercial real estate transformation, and becoming a prolific pub...

Tyler Sellhorn runs remote for Polygon Labs, a blockchain development platform with 500 employees distributed all around the world. Less than 4 years ago, he was teaching high school algebra for the Fort Wayne Community school district, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the 140th largest metro area in the US, not necessarily known for its bustling blockchain sector. Welcome to Work20XX, a show focused on th...

Tracy Hawkins , former VP, Head of Real Estate & Work Transformation, Twitter was well into the hybrid / remote work transformation before Covid thrust the concept on the rest of us. Moving from the London and Dublin offices to Twitter Headquarters in Downtown San Francisco, she and her team had already expanded their thinking from a purely real-estate-centric focus on leases and occupancy, to how...

Shared pain builds camaraderie and strengthens ties as we rally around a cause. Workplace professionals grabbed internet megaphones and started sharing best practices almost immediately in the spring of 2020 as the digitization of work took a step-function leap forward. This open-source ethos of sharing continues today because as much as we have over two years of experience, the future is still un...

Workplace professionals have worked with corporate real estate and facilities to build productivity and people-centric improvements in the office and work environment for decades. But resistance was usually high and progress measured, frustrating many who saw opportunities to do so much better and move beyond historical habits that continued to dictate so much of our work routines. As we come into...

What happened when the world of 'agile, flexible, and dynamic' crashes into what my Wharton Real Estate Professor used to describe as  'big, lumpy, assets'? Best in class Real Estate, Facilities, and Workplace Professionals are on board, and early results are out, including the recent opening of LinkedIn's Office One, where 50% of the workstations were removed, and replaced with over 75 different...

Bad meetings are the bane of the modern working world. The back-to-back, uninterrupted energy crushers have only gotten worse over the last two years. We're asked to be "always-on" and ready to jump on the next notification (i.e. email, message, IM, DM, text, etc.). This type of work culture is burning people out to the point we gave it a name: "The Great Resignation." There's a better way.  Welco...

Do you know the biggest challenge your team faces outside work right now? Be sure to ask and listen. And watch PayPal's Dave Montez on the power of the one-on-one. Welcome to Work 20XX. A show focused on work as we continue to navigate these transformational times. I am your host, Jeff Frick. Whether you've been on our Work 20XX journey from the  first step  or just joining us now, you can quickly...

Welcome to Work 20XX. A show focused on work as we continue to navigate these transformational times. I am your host, Jeff Frick. In this episode, we explore the world of Design, Real Estate, and Facilities through the eyes of long-time industry veteran Ryan Anderson, Vice President, Global Research & Insights, MillerKnoll. No surprise, these professionals are moving from cost center/efficiency th...

Episode 2 - Meg Bear Welcome to Work 20XX A show focused on the future of work as we continue to navigate these transformational times. I'm your host Jeff Frick.   The world changed in March 2020, Chief Human Resources Officers and Chief People Officers had to quickly adjust to the new world. Amazingly, the companies and people adapted faster than anyone would have imagined. It quickly became appa...

Episode 1 - Darren Murph Welcome to Work 20XX A show focused on the future of work as we continue to navigate these transformational times. I'm your host Jeff Frick.   Who better to kick off the show than the #1 expert on the distributed team in the world, Darren Murph, Head of Remote for GitLab. Darren shares the lessons and best practices in making distributed teams successful. And the best part...