Another essential for successful flexible working is the empowerment of the work-force. Leading facilities management and management consultancy figures such as Philip Scott state with regard to flexible working that it is not just a way of cutting costs by implementing a hot desking policy to reduce the number of desks required. Rather than being a straightforward management decision, it involves broad and deep management thinking about the whole subject with the input of the workforce to cope with the rapidly changing culture of the office. Of course there is the added advantage that consulting staff regarding their professional opinion of their environment strengthens the bond between the company and the employees.
The main implication for facilities management is clearly the need to be much more aware of people in an organisation - not simply in terms of their activities in the office, occupying space and requiring IT, furniture, heating and lighting but much more broadly in the sense of their front of house function, their potential for flexible working and how it affects their use of facilities.
Flexible working has become a part of the new workplace because people have to be more flexible in the 1990s. No longer do people expect to work in the one office from leaving school until retirement. The work-force are more flexible in their outlook and take more opportunities with their own lives. Given that they are developing in this way, and people are our major tool, where we put people and how we use them to best advantage has to change and facilities management plays a part in that.
Another essential for successful flexible working is the empowerment of the work-force. Leading facilities management and management consultancy figures such as Philip Scott state with regard to flexible working that it is not just a way of cutting costs by implementing a hot desking policy to reduce the number of desks required. Rather than being a straightforward management decision, it involves broad and deep management thinking about the whole subject with the input of the workforce to cope with the rapidly changing culture of the office. Of course there is the added advantage that consulting staff regarding their professional opinion of their environment strengthens the bond between the company and the employees.
The main implication for facilities management is clearly the need to be much more aware of people in an organisation - not simply in terms of their activities in the office, occupying space and requiring IT, furniture, heating and lighting but much more broadly in the sense of their front of house function, their potential for flexible working and how it affects their use of facilities.
Flexible working has become a part of the new workplace because people have to be more flexible in the 1990s. No longer do people expect to work in the one office from leaving school until retirement. The work-force are more flexible in their outlook and take more opportunities with their own lives. Given that they are developing in this way, and people are our major tool, where we put people and how we use them to best advantage has to change and facilities management plays a part in that.
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