Smart Working: a new flexible working method
New global challenges are forcing companies to transform. To modify their structure, their processes, their teams and their own spaces to achieve a more agile and flexible work system. Capable of responding to current trends, taking advantage of the opportunities that technology offers and enhancing the creativity and well-being of the team, a new way of working, known as SmartWorking, has emerged. It is a new way of approaching work that gets rid of inflexibility and predetermined patterns in favour of focusing on what is relevant: ideas, projects and people.
New methodologies thus emerge that boost flexibility in the interests of creativity and well-being. That seeks to create value and innovation from smart collaboration between people and technologies. Cooperation that helps to reduce operational costs and to reduce the impact on the environment.
They also imply a change in the work culture and seek to provide the necessary framework to generate smart and agile processes that favour the effectiveness of the organisation and its capacity to adapt to change.
SmartWorking focuses on four concepts that take on a new dimension: space, time, technology and people.
Shaping these concepts depends on the company and the team. In fact, the SmartWorking philosophy is based on three models: Agile Working, Activity Based Working, Knowledge-Based Working, and Experience-Based Working.
Space provides solutions
In that sense, the workspace has much to contribute to the transformation of companies. The conception and distribution of space itself, as well as the choice of furniture must respond to this need for flexibility and to the specific requirements of each company and each team. The versatility of the furniture enables creating spaces for concentration, socialising, communication or dispersion. There are various furniture solutions that enable the creation of SmartWorking spaces and give employees the power to switch workstations, depending on their daily needs.
Flexible spaces lead to flexible business models and agile processes and enable the incorporation of very different people, ensuring their comfort and well-being. They manage to promote communication and innovation and, in that sense, furniture becomes an ally of productivity and talent.