Overview
With 37% of staff currently working from home, and the number of people adopting hybrid working rising steadily, recently reaching 10% (ONS), the way that organisations operate is facing a significant shift. Across the public sector, organisations need to balance supporting staff working remotely with creating a safe office environment for those who wish to return, all while trying to maintain staff wellbeing and productivity in a quickly changing environment.
The Future of Work Conference will provide the public sector with the tools they need to effectively support remote, hybrid, and in-office employees. Organisations across the public sector will come together to discuss common challenges whilst hearing how they can deliver innovative solutions that will deliver a more productive and happier workforce.
Key Speakers
Other Speakers
Agenda
- 29th March
- 30th March
- One on one networking opportunities and live delegate meet ups
- Replay functions so you never miss a session
- Live chat, questioning and polling tools
- Real time resources and presentations
- A next generation conference engagement platform
Before proceedings get underway, this short explainer session will explore how you can get the most out of our new next generation Conference platform.
Our IG Team will run through how to make virtual connections, creating networking meet ups, accessing content on demand and how to use our new Q&A, chat functions and virtual polling tools.
The ONS will provide a summary of how working practices, with a focus on home and hybrid working, have evolved throughout the pandemic. This will focus on the changing trends as well as insight into how these changes have impacted on businesses and individuals, their actions, and their attitudes to future homeworking.
We will use insight from a variety of ONS and other data sources to understand how working practices have changed for different groups, industries and characteristics and how this may have impacted on areas such as productivity, employment and workplace safety measures.
- Examining the future of hybrid and flexible working as a “permanent feature” in the Civil Service
- Highlighting the benefits of hybrid working for reducing costs in the public sector, both in travel and estates
- Sharing how hybrid and flexible working can allow the public sector to “reduce London-centricity” and create opportunities across the UK
- Examining changes in attitudes to remote and flexible working from both employers and employees, and highlighting the existing stigma
- Discussing the impact of remote and flexible working on equality and diversity, especially for parents, and what needs to be done to maintain the progress made during Covid-19
- Sharing how to formalise flexible working practices, increase flexibility, and improve facilities for supporting flexible working, and the impact this would have on employees
The Behavioural Insights Team’s Impact of changes in flexible working during lockdown on gender equality in the workplace report found that flexible working was a “double-edged sword” for people with caring responsibilities and for gender equality in the workplace. This session will discuss:
- The results of the survey exploring changes to remote working, unpaid care work, career and wellbeing outcomes, and gender equality in the workplace
- The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on time- and location-based flexibility
- How to sustain the benefits of remote working, and how employers can promote well-being and equality in the workplace
With workplaces facing a mixture of remote and in-office staff, there is a need to develop and implement wellbeing strategies that can effectively support the whole workforce, regardless of their location.
Learning Outcomes:
- Learn how to identify the key components of an effective employee wellbeing strategy, including prevention, awareness and communication
- Learn how to tailor your strategy to the hybrid workplace, including managing discussions around returning to the office
- Learn how to position employee mental wellbeing at the heart of job and work design
- Learn how to create a blueprint for a tailored wellbeing strategy that you can takeaway, develop and implement within your own organisation
- One on one networking opportunities and live delegate meet ups
- Replay functions so you never miss a session
- Live chat, questioning and polling tools
- Real time resources and presentations
- A next generation conference engagement platform
Before proceedings get underway, this short explainer session will explore how you can get the most out of our new next generation Conference platform.
Our IG Team will run through how to make virtual connections, creating networking meet ups, accessing content on demand and how to use our new Q&A, chat functions and virtual polling tools.
- Examining the future of the workplace, and how to transform work from a set singular location to an agile activity that can be carried out in a variety of settings
- Sharing best practice for designing workspaces that maximise productivity in a hybrid working environment
- Highlighting how to optimise workspaces in the public sector to support your workforce, maximise productivity, and deliver value for money
- Outlining how the GPA is responding to changing work practices and hybrid working
- Sharing best practice for creating inclusive and accessible workspaces
- Discussing how to create safe office environments and maintain staff wellbeing and productivity
- Highlighting the cultural changes required to effectively enable smarter working, alongside adaptations to physical spaces
- Sharing how NHS Property Services developed Team Charters to establish workplace culture, and how the Team Charters continue to evolve
- Examining how Smarter Working can be integrated with existing work practices
According to research by LSE, remote working has the potential to boost productivity. This workshop will equip you with strategies to boost productivity in the hybrid workplace, including:
- Engage with tools and techniques to boost morale and productivity among hybrid workers
- Learn methods for ensuring that productivity ambitions are balanced with employee needs
- Develop your own employee engagement strategy to boost productivity among remote workers
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Adur and Worthing Councils conducted an audit of technical capabilities of councillors to allow them to run council meetings online. This allowed the meetings to be livestreamed, ensuring transparency and public participation was maintained while working remotely. This session will discuss:
- The role of the audit of technical capability of councillors in shaping how Adur and Worthing Councils responded to the Covid-19 pandemic
- How 1 to 1 coaching sessions impacted councillors’ access to meetings and participation
- The ongoing role of remote technology in Adur and Worthing Councils to maintain transparency and reflect the hybrid environment
*programme subject to change
Audience
This Conference is specifically designed for the wider public sector, Central and Local Government, Health and the Voluntary Sectors. Typical job titles will include:
- Heads of HR
- HR Managers
- Directors of People and Organisational Development
- Heads of Workforce
- Heads of Workplace Wellbeing
- Directors of Occupational Health
- Directors of Estates
- Heads of Estate Management
- Facilities Managers
- Directors of Property
- Service Transformation Managers
- Heads of Delivery and Performance
- Programme Directors
Pricing
- Public Sector Rate (Local & Central Gov/ NHS)£295 + VAT
- Voluntary Sector Rate (Large - £1Million+ Annual Income)£245 + VAT
- Voluntary Sector Rate (Small- Under £1Million Annual Income)£195 + VAT
- Private Sector Rate£395 + VAT
Conference Partner
The Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM) is the body for workplace and facilities professionals.
We exist to promote excellence among a worldwide membership community of around 14,000 and to demonstrate the value and contribution of workplace and facilities management more widely.
