Wide Open Workspace: Trailblazing Solutions for Tomorrows Workforce

By Elizabeth Dukes

Is creative collaboration critical to your company's success? Is your workforce in constant motion? Is going green a priority for your company? Is your facility set up to attract top talent?Real Estate and Facilities Managers who answer "yes" to questions like these know that dramatic changes are reshaping where and how people work. Even while keeping their enterprises running smoothly, day in and day out, Facilities Managers must propose strategic actions to support a tech-savvy, collaborative workforce and to improve the return on fixed assets. Authors Elizabeth Dukes and Don Traweek know that companies strive for superior performance from their real estate assets and high productivity from their workers. Their company, iOffice, helps its clients meet unfolding challenges with simple, flexible software tools--in environments ranging from traditional, fixed layouts to changeable, flexible spaces.In Wide Open Workspace: Trailblazing Solutions for Tomorrow's Workforce, Dukes and Traweek share their past experiences and their future vision. In this fun, informative book, they draw on their Texas heritage and set forth eight "Cowboy Codes" to help guide the unsung heroes who make the workplace work. A rich collection of Texas history, contemporary business stories, and case studies of iOffice customers, the book illustrates ways to accomplish workplace goals with the mentality of a true cowboy. Readers will be inspired to blaze new trails, take pride in their chores, and find ten-gallon courage to get the job done.Whether you are Head of General Services for a single site or Chief Operations Officer for locations spanning the globe, you can join the "Workspace Cowboys" who are trailblazing solutions for tomorrow's workforce. So, come gather round the campfire to hear the stories of those who have helped reshape the work environment and the ideas of those whose eyes are on the horizon for things to come.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615970281
• ISBN13: 9780615970288
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: WCT Publishing
• Length: 151 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.