Open Space Network: Building sustainable distributed working spaces for autonomous teams.

新冠肺炎爆发后，不可否认，工作惯例发生了变化。4月份，46%的英国员工在家工作(WFH)(英国国家统计局)，其所需的加速数字化工作转型将继续下去(伦敦证交所和英国安全理事会)。工作地点的变化会影响生产力、福祉、更广泛的经济和环境。对雇主来说，办公室利用率的变化既是挑战，也是机遇。空间的成本是巨大的，英国是世界上最贵的。“严寒安全”的新标准使这一点复杂化，空间限制能力降低，设施管理变得更加复杂/昂贵。与此同时，在家工作的人比办公室工作人员多消耗80%的能源(WSP和英国安全委员会的报告)，而通勤的另一种影响：没有单一的简单解决方案。显然，WFH和办公室的能源消耗不必是二元的。需要融合集中式总部工作、本地办公室和WFH的模式。这提供了可持续的复苏，解决了工作/生活平衡、交通污染和生产率问题。另一种当地办公空间需要降低密度，这必须对员工来说是方便和安全的，以鼓励使用。开放空间网络将开发一种创新的技术和商业模式来促进这一点。利用物联网(IoT)设备和机器学习的互联能力，以及一个协调安全占用、促进协作和访问的数字平台，我们将创建Covid安全分布的共用办公空间网络，通过订阅模式灵活地提供，跨越以前不可行的地点。采取网络方法以低成本提供大量地点，我们的重点将是被开发商忽视的太小而无法盈利的市场城镇和棕地物业。通过最大限度地缩短旅行距离并利用集镇的乡村枢纽位置，我们将使人们能够乘坐公共交通工具或步行/骑自行车通勤。我们将包括卡迪夫大学的MyCompanion行为物联网系统的扩展，该系统将实现两个相互关联的功能：i)环境住宿监控，(例如，湿度、温度、空气质量/运动)，以确保安全和舒适的工作空间。ii)社交住宿援助，包括物理(集群点和空间利用)以及可通信/社交特征/要求(DND，开放网络，与朋友坐在一起，残疾等)我们现有的协作平台将扩展到连接这些系统及其自身的数据，并通过我们的人工智能能力支持支撑功能(桌子分配、清洁等)。并确定为用户改善环境和优化空间以提高生产率和福祉。我们将建立一个人员密集的示范办公室，配备物联网设备，对我们的主张进行社会和商业验证评估，并为组织和个人层面提供初步的可持续性评估和框架-此分析将由分包专家提供。我们将探索通过提供高度适合的空间网络来支持组织发展分布式劳动力的市场潜力。通过利用具有多个站点的网络方法，再加上现代的、适应性强的预订系统，这些系统可以与组织的轮班/轮换战略相结合，我们将在订阅的基础上提供空间即服务。

Following the outbreak of Covid-19, working practices have undeniably changed. 46% of UK employees worked from home (WFH) in April (ONS) and the accelerated digital transformation of working it necessitated will continue (LSE and British Safety Council). Changes in work location impact on productivity, well-being, the wider economy and environment.For employers, the shift in office utilisation is a challenge and an opportunity. The cost of space is significant, with the UK the most expensive in the world. New standards for being "Covid-Secure" compound this, with de-densification of space limiting capacity and making facility management more complicated/expensive.Alongside this, a homeworker uses 80% more energy than an office based one (WSP and British Safety Council reports), versus the alternative impact of commuting: there is no single easy solution.Clearly, WFH versus the office need not be binary. Models blending centralised 'HQ' working, local offices and WFH are required. This offers sustainable recovery, addresses work/life balance, transport pollution and productivity. Alternative local office space is required to reduce density and this must be convenient and safe for workers to encourage utilisation.Open Space Network will develop an innovative technology and business model to facilitate this. Using the connected capability of internet of things (IoT) devices and machine learning alongside a digital platform that coordinates safe occupancy, facilitates collaboration and access, we will create a network of Covid Secure distribute 'co-working' office spaces, flexibly available via a subscription model, across previously unfeasible locations.Taking a network approach to offer a high number of locations at low-cost, our focus will be on the 'market towns' and brown-field properties ignored by developers as too small to be profitable. By minimising travel distances and utilising market town 'rural' hub locations we will enable people to commute by public transport or walking/cycling.We will include an expansion of Cardiff University's MyCompanion behavioural IoT system which will achieve 2 linked functions:i) environmental accommodation monitoring, (e.g. humidity, temperature, air quality/movement) for Covid-security and a pleasant workspace.ii) social accommodation assistance, both physical (cluster points and space utilisation) alongside communicable/social characteristics/requirements (DND, open to networking, sit with friends, disability etc.)Our existing collaboration platform will be expanded to link these systems' and its own data and through our AI capability will support underpinning functions (desk allocation, cleaning etc.) and identify environmental improvements for users and space optimisation to benefit productivity and wellbeing.We will establish a populated demonstrator office, furnished with IoT equipment to conduct assessment of social and commercial validation of our proposition as well as an initial sustainability assessment and framework going forward for organisations and at an individual level - this analysis will be delivered by subcontracted experts.We will explore the market potential of supporting organisations to develop distributed workforces by providing a network of highly suited space. By utilising a network approach with multiple sites augmented by modern, adaptable, booking systems that can integrate with for example an organisation's shift/rotation strategies, we will offer space-as-a-service on a subscription basis.