Spotlight removed barriers to remote working, she predicts turbulence as businesses try to move from hybrid-working policy to practice. We anticipate issues of fairness and inclusion to rise, she warns. Who gets seen? Who gets promoted? Who gets included in X or Y meetings? Jamieson is concerned that conversations around where work is based are overshadowing other forms of from research undertaken with ComRes. working options whatsoever. Countries such as New Zealand and Spain have mooted the possibility of a four-day week, and Sweden famously Similarly, retailer Morrisons is introducing a four-day working week work nine hours a day (rather than eight), as well as one Saturday per month. in Japan. Just as new homes built in the future may need to include a space for home business Ericsson gathered data from company Clive Wilkinson, which companies such as Google and and co-working spaces in the suburbs aka the WeWork model as organisations listen to employees increased reluctance to do the long commute. However, Tom Johnson, those who feel they have to go to the Partnership, believes talk of the death of The library a no-talking, working space that combines large tables, individual nooks and comfortable chairs for quiet focus The plaza a kitchen/social space that enables colleagues to have spontaneous encounters The avenue a walkway with tables, seating and booths, where colleagues can chat to each other. To better understand how to develop its future work spaces, Swedish technology rarely go. These insights have changed some of become ghost towns, not least because market forces will determine that commercial and domestic rents drop to calculating the persona split, Ericsson return to these spaces, not because they and include more team and socialising but because this is a space for interaction and collaboration. ville du quart dheure is one such idea being 18 Impact ISSUE 34 2021_pp16-19_Spot .indd 18 18/06/2021 13:05