As a friend and I were thinking of reading up on remote work and then doing some research, I came across this title on Netgalley and instantly requested a review copy. I am very fortunate that the publisher agreed to let me have a look. I am almost done with the book and will highly recommend it to anyone interested in knowing what are the impacts of the future of work - through working from home or working from anywhere.

Lynda has done extensive research on this topic and brings in details from various companies (and am happy to see TCS represented a number of times by her) as examples. It was interesting to see even experiments from way back in the 90s in British Telecom being great inputs to our understanding of remote work. Lynda brings in aspects of technologies that can help in the new work place.

All in all I think this book will satiate the academic, the lay reader of such topics, and importantly the practitioner who is wondering about how the future of work will pan out in terms of work, worker and workplace.

Redesigning Work by Lynda Gratton , London Business School Professor and advisor at HSM Advisory, published this week, offers a four-step framework for redesigning work that will help you:
• Understand your people and what drives performance
• Reimagine creative new ways to work
• Model and test these approaches within your organization
• Act and create to ensure your redesign has lasting benefits

It’s an eminently practical book showing us that companies don’t all have the answers yet but are working to create the best models, with case studies from global bank HSBC, Japanese tech company Fujitsu & Australian telecom company Telstra.

If you enjoyed Julia Hobsbawm ‘The Nowhere Office’, this is a good compliment to the subject area.

Book is applicable to this specific context and gives an overview on specific criteria we can use to understand our company's policies. Gives examples of companies that shifted their ways of working.

This book is so incredibly relevant and timely now as we begin to return part-time to our physical offices, while continuing to do some remote work. Dr. Lynda Gratton really knows her stuff -- I have read other books of hers as well as articles she writes for business publications. I lead Organizational Development at a large non-profit in the US, and have found her to be incredibly well-researched and well thought out. She also always provides practical actions that I can take and go implement within my teams and organization. With her new book Redesigning work -- she does not disappoint! Dr. Gratton speaks about how as a world we all had to go on this collective journey together and figure it out as we went together -- there were no existing playbooks from other organizations on how to make this work in 2020. Through this experience we realized that people could be effective and productive by working remotely; we all accelerated our digital skills quickly; we had to create new processes and practices to sustain the new way of working, and we realized human connection is important. Throughout the book, Dr. Gratton shares examples from organizations that help bring to life how they are redesigning work. As I was reading, I took copious notes and as a bonus you can access a copy of her redesigning work blueprint which I downloaded.
There are a lot of books starting to come on the market about the future of work and hybrid but this is the book you should have at the top of your list if you are a leader, business owner, manager or in human resources -- I highly recommend this book.