Into the Future Work, besides sleeping, is the thing we spend the absolutly the most time on. The average person spends about 30% of their life working. Therefore many people, and probably you as well, find wellbeing at work increasingly important. We want to spend the major part of our lives at work well, working on things that we love, that challenge us, that are relevant. Yet, for a long time in our history, work used to be something that we just needed to do to survive. Today, we have a plethora of tools that can assist us in making our work easier, more enjoyable, and more productive. Work has changed a lot already, but we cannot help but wonder how it will be in the future. Will we continue to work more from home, or will the office make a resurgence? Or will we even work in the metaverse in the future? And what about our work itself? We spoke with Marianne Hewlett from Atos to evaluate what the future will hold for us, knowledge workers. TEXT Maiky Geerman DESIGN Caitlin Riesewijk
Work becomes personnel While we’re nowhere near a utopian work environment yet, the last couple of years showed a major shift in the way we work. The pandemic has forced many companies to continue their business online, causing lots of online business tools to pop up. From well-known applications such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom, we’ve seen many of them throughout the pandemic. SCOPE MARCH 2022
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The new standard Although a majority of workers would be glad to return to the office and meet up with their colleagues again, only about 10% of workers state they would go to the office for individual work. Due to the increasing convenience of online working, the majority of people seem to realize you can easily work from anywhere, anytime. Therefore, the
office seems to be shifting to a place to meet and collaborate rather than to do individual work. Online tools can provide great benefits, such as reduced travel times and increased knowledge availability. Marianne: ‘’Productivity remains steady - we don’t see the steep drop that some “old school” managers have been predicting for years - yet, we also
