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Plan for a Heterogeneous Workplace by 2020

Don’t let the frenzy of future work styles leave you in the past.

  • The future of the workplace is a hot topic, yet much of the commentary has been speculative; HR, managers, and executives need reliable trending to decide where to spend their resources in preparation.
  • With the speed of evolving technologies and changing demographics, new work styles have been adopted, often in an ad hoc way, leaving HR, managers, and executives to scramble to cope with new implications.
  • With so many work styles now available to employers and employees, it is difficult to choose the best mix for the current and future workforce.

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Critical Insight

  • New and non-traditional work styles are going to grow at unprecedented rates requiring HR, managers, and executives to prepare for and support the change.
  • While major shifts in work styles are predicted in the next ten years, HR, managers, and executives need to start preparing now to ensure the organization is successful at adopting change.
  • While a variety of work styles present opportunities to do work more efficiently and engage employees more effectively, they also create implications for leadership, performance management, and global business relations that organizations must contend with.

Impact and Result

  • Use McLean & Company’s Heterogeneous Workplace storyboard to learn about the variety of work styles growing in use and how they can benefit your business, as well as the implications of a heterogeneous workplace on various organizational issues ranging from leadership competencies to performance management.
  • Use McLean & Company’s Work Style Readiness Tool to determine which work styles are best suited to departments in your organization.
  • Use both the storyboard and the tool to determine initiatives to better prepare you for the future of work.

Plan for a Heterogeneous Workplace by 2020 Research & Tools

1. Learn about future work style trends and implications for the future

Make informed decisions about future workplace preparations.

2. Determine which work styles are best suited to departments in the organization

Optimize their use, or prepare for new, future-oriented work styles.

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