Tomorrow's workplace
Design the workplace of the future for greater flexibility and better environmental performance
Choose a working environment and re-design it or an aspect of it that makes flexible working easier or reduces the energy consumption of working environments. Ideally, your solution will do both.
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Award information
The Royal Bank of Scotland's Intelligent Working Award
Value: £3,000
The Royal Bank of Scotland's Intelligent Working programme provides alternative occupation strategies to support RBS group businesses and provide portfolio flexibility and efficiency. Since 2006 it has completed business research on over 30,000 colleagues across the group and helped over 10,000 of them move to alternative accommodation practises where sharing of space is a key feature. The programme is actively engaged with businesses & RBS colleagues and projects in the USA, Asia Pac & India as well as large scale implementations of Intelligent Working in the UK.
Judging Panel
Francis Duffy, Founder, DEGW (Chair)
Russ Camplin FRSA, Design Manager, The Choice Programme, Design and Moves, The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc
Hilary Dalke, Professor of Design; Director Design Research Centre, Design for Environments, Kingston University
Ben Kelly RDI, Ben Kelly Design
Jeremy Myerson FRSA, Helen Hamlyn Professor of Design; Director, Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design; Chair, InnovationRCA Management Group, Royal College of Art
Tim Yendell, Head of The Choice Programme, Design & Moves, The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc
Organisations and websites
The Work Foundation
Donkin, R. (2009). The Future of Work. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Donkin, R. (2010). The History of Work. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Other publications and resources
Work futures, Richard Donkin. Published by The Work Foundation on behalf of The Good Work Commission, 2009. Donkin highlights the challenges for work in the future, including how to provide as much flexibility as possible and attend to the needs of an aging workforce.
Workspheres: Designing the Workplace of Tomorrow, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2001. The exhibition takes as its foundation the notion that contemporary lifestyles are beginning to shape and change the way we work.
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