{"id":53462,"date":"2021-11-05T14:14:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T03:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.steelcase.com\/asia-en\/?p=53462"},"modified":"2023-02-08T21:04:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T10:04:08","slug":"chapter-2-home-new-rituals-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steelcase.com\/asia-en\/research\/articles\/topics\/culture-talent\/chapter-2-home-new-rituals-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 2 The Home: New Rituals and Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

The way we work is changing. This 3 part series\u00a0traces the experience of Melbourne and its city\u00a0dwellers across 3 contexts: Melbourne the city, the\u00a0home, and the office. This second chapter, \u201cThe\u00a0Home,\u201d follows the experiences of 3 Melburnians\u00a0working from home, new hybrid work rituals, and\u00a0their thoughts on the future of work. Find out more\u00a0about Steelcase\u2019s latest thinking on the hybrid future\u00a0of work<\/a>. To read chapter 1 of this series, visit here<\/a>, or\u00a0jump to \u201cThe Office<\/a>\u201d chapter for a glimpse into an\u00a0office of the future.<\/em><\/p>\n

Like many places around the world, the Melbourne work from home experience has been varied and diverse. Regardless of each individual situation,challenges quickly became apparent: those living by themselves felt isolated and disconnected from community; and people living with family members or housemates suddenly found themselves struggling to carve out a work space where they could focus and feel productive. With work from home continuing to remain a broad experience inside the pandemic paradigm, people have also discovered benefits to this new situation, developed new work rituals, and accelerated the adoption of tools that support a\u00a0hybrid way of working. As understanding of the challenges, benefits, and new work rituals arising from work from home continues to crystallise, companies and organisations will have access to more information on how they can improve their work experiences and build resilient, future-proof workplaces ready for hybrid collaboration.<\/p>\n

Centered productivity<\/strong><\/p>\n

With flexible and activity-based working more broadly accepted in Australia and cities like Melbourne, work from home was not an entirely new experience. As Andrew Dwyer, Sales Director at Steelcase Melbourne describes, \u201cit was more the necessity\u201d of having to work from home that proved to be part of the initial challenge. Settling into the new work from home paradigm, Dwyer highlights \u201cdealing with loneliness and not seeing people\u201d as other key challenges in his experience. Indeed, sense of isolation is one of the top challenges surfaced in Steelcase\u2019s recent Global Report on the Changing Expectations and the Future of Work<\/a>, which surveyed over 32,000 people across 10 countries. While work from home has been an adjustment, Dwyer considers himself fortunate to have a\u00a0dedicated work area. \u201cThe ability to have a place in the home that is your center for work that you can raise and lower, stand and sit at was really\u00a0advantageous in aiding my productivity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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