Purpose: The aim of this paper is to explore workplace implications of the changing workforce demographic. Design/methodology/approach: The author identifies the different generations in today's workforce. The workplace expectations of the different generations are explored. Findings: Corporate real estate managers need to establish the different needs of the different generations. In addition the corporate real estate manager needs to create an environment that allows all generations to coexist in the same workplace. Practical Implications: Corporate real estate managers can use the information to assist in alignment of their workplace to the different generational expectations of the workforce. Originality/Value: The paper fills a void by evaluating office occupiers workplace preferences based on age.

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The impact of generational differences on the workplace

Against the background of earlier publications on the future of facilities management (FM) and acknowledging digitalization and sustainability as two major shaping forces, the purpose of this paper is to place contributions to the special issue in the perspective of current opportunities for FM research.,After a review of publications since the 1980s, dealing with the future of FM, there is an analysis of how the forces of digitalization and sustainability have emerged over five decades. The articles of this special issue are introduced against this background. Opportunities for future FM research are identified, and the relation between research, education and practice is discussed.,Megatrends outlined in the 1980s still shape how FM develops. Digitalization supports sustainability not only through workplace change and building design but also through performance measurement, certification schemes and an awareness of the wider urban context.,Opportunities for FM research are created by digitalization and concerns with sustainability, combining environmental and social aspects. Relations between organizations studied in an FM context are important. Within organizations, employee issues and risk management are emphasized.,Policies and schemes for sustainable buildings should be linked to sustainable FM more clearly. The relation between research, education and practice needs to be consolidated as a basis for research and development, as illustrated by a number of studies belonging to this special issue. To reach the goals of sustainable development, we need to develop the knowledge and theoretical frameworks that can be applied to and used by practice. The recent ISO FM definition appears as narrow and should be extended to recognize facilities’ life-cycle issues as well as broader urban and social concerns.,This paper highlights the importance of basing FM research on an understanding of the fundamental forces that shape change.

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/F-10-2018-0126/full/pdf

Shaping tomorrow’s facilities management

https://orbit.dtu.dk/files/93003679/Sectoral_innovation_system.pdf

Sectoral innovation system foresight in practice: Nordic facilities management foresight

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the objectives, tenants, spaces and services of different business center concepts and test whether the existing classifications in literature and in the real estate market draw on significantly different concepts. Design/methodology/approach – After a literature review, data on business centers were collected with a questionnaire among owners/mangers of 139 business centers in the Netherlands. The existing business center concepts are examined whether these concepts are significantly different, using bivariate analyses. Findings – The findings of this study give insight into the business center market, the existing business center concepts and (dis)similarities between the concepts. Although many dissimilarities were found between the business center concepts, like offered services, social spaces and contractual agreements, findings show that the four business center concepts can be offered in similar objects. Originality/value – New ideas about working a...

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Differences between business center concepts in The Netherlands

Scenarios for the second generation ethanol in Brazil

Purpose – The changes now being experienced in the workplace, driven by market pressures, changing demographics and new technologies, are real and accelerating. Since change remains the one constant when it comes to workplace planning, further transformations within the workplace over the next 20 or 30 years can be expected. Hence, this paper aims to demonstrate how to use a scenario planning futures approach in a changing, complex and uncertain workplace environment. As well as provoke thought and discussion about its long‐term future.Design/methodology/approach – At the Futures Academy in Dublin Institute of Technology, a systematic methodology for exploring and shaping the future has been developed, called the “Prospective through scenario” process. Each stage of the process is discussed in detail throughout this paper, as well as how the process is applied in the Johnson Controls workplace of the future study.Findings – The creative “futures studies” approach can deal effectively with change, uncertai...

Tomorrow's workplace: a futures approach using prospective through scenarios

Purpose – This paper aims to demonstrate that it is important to have a methodological process that is reflexive and flexible to achieve fluid interactions that add rigour and energy to the overall process of a built environment projectDesign/methodology/approach – This paper outlines the Prospective through Scenarios futures process used in a study called the “Workplace of the Future” It also discusses how and why the methodology evolves over the course of the project with participant feedback as the main source of information for the analysisFindings – Change is the one factor in the Prospective through Scenarios methodological development that ensures the participants to think deeply and laterally in a futures process, from which a value‐driven process is achievedOriginality/value – Novel futures techniques have been applied to a discipline that is usually reactive and quantitative – workplace provision and facilities management

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Ruth Saurin

Papers

Tomorrow's workplace: a futures approach using prospective through scenarios

Using an Adaptive Scenarios Approach to Establish Strategies for Tomorrow’s Workplace