dangerous. floods and droughts through climate change become the main driver of mass migration you can write any apocalyptic scenarios you want and probably more the book. climate exodus starts september 5th on g.w. . well some of us and joy the solitude of the good old single office others love to communicate directly with dozens of colleagues in an open plan workspace but both are falling out of fashion the future of work will look radically different we're told with collaboration spaces hot desking home office is that really the future

the next gen workplace that's all topic today on maze how and where we will work. now what i'm not here in the studio talking to you why i sit like millions of others at my desk in an open plan office did that is newsroom is a beehive 14 journalists squeezed into an old factory all researching editing video discussing ideas for stories it's pretty lively there as you can imagine and i enjoyed that but sometimes when i need to focus on writing like this script that i'm reading off the teleprompter to you right now i miss the peace and quiet of a single office but open plan ones are not just slightly annoying at times research is suggesting that they can be downright unhealthy but those forced to work in them it's time to think about those 100 tips. this is an open plan office like many others across germany. but it's often noisy so it can be hard to concentrate. this is also one but of

a new and trendy a kind it looks more like a hipster cafe can anyone actually get any work done here i think that if you are allowed to go back and reflect and then if you reflect by sitting in a so for reading a magazine or if you do the postle if you go to the gym and do some exercising or if you. do some downstream i think that helps off to. increase the quality of our decisions and delivers. the standard regimented open plan office is giving way to a more fluid and flexible work space this open space design concept has been implemented here in stockholm by the scandinavian subsidiary of the 2 we travel group. the $500.00 employees don't have scientists they work where they like there are more and less private areas and a range of meeting rooms. i am kind of ike flexible in my way

a working air usually work at different places because i i have a hard time focusing and there since i have are of different places and bases to sit around or i can just stand up i think it's super get designing open plan office is for clerical stuff was a way to sate space and money that cheaper to build than individual offices an estimated 20 percent cheaper on average but a study from sweden from of people who work him standard open plan office is call in sick a twice as often as others another study found that it can take up to 23 minutes for an employee to regain full concentration are to being distracted towards evening things quiet down obviously there are some benefits it's nice to see the colics year and there are many nice people working here and do get

a lot of feedback and in port from your colleagues working here the new style open space design can lend itself to new ways of working for example 3 computer program as a working together here while a one writes code the other to offer advice vis collaborative approach is meant to help the team catch coding mistakes your get plight a corporation that you need only way but now you get that immediately while the the cycle book like in a communication it's must shorter when you sit to get there from the thought it's clear for me personally very form way of working the rule is that they change rolled every 8 minutes so they take turns writing code if important that the team your work ian wants to work this way it comped you count how many pristine who like to i want to beat a birth developer adults not a point the point this we to get out there are going are the leeward a best solution so if not like

a competition who is going to write the best code. i don't like noisy offices so i try to work from home whenever i can. the open space doctrine also aims to count a certain workplace problems such as room and mongering and the development of fiefdoms and clique's. we build our way walking here around the fee very important aspects one is transparency when you walk around here you'll see that we've had no car very few close truman said cetera me s. than managing director estates in the open spaces like anyone else and if you want to listen to what i talk about you can sit next to me and i think building on that there's a big degree of trust. if you get to work early you can choose where to sit. but you can't choose who sits next to you. well even though you're just seeing me right now this show is made by dozens of

people reporters camera women editors sound engineers technicians graphic designers video editors teamwork is he without it you can't do television or make most products that work is just too complex and that holds for research and technological development as well the end of vacation lap and heidelberg brings together scores of scientists from universities and companies to work on advanced technology with commercial potential focuses on organic electronics that sounds difficult and it is precisely why so many clever people have to work together. you know my job. and i love my job. and about different cultures and working methods different social classes and mentalities we bring everything together on one platform for. you and when still best to

coordinate collaboration among 150 scientists from 3 universities and between research groups from different fields of study as well as between researches and industry. the innovation lab in heidelberg does research into areas that have commercial potential. that's it's my job i'm for it's my job to make the scientists aware of gaps in the market and stead of doing research that's not relevant to the market they examine what people need many things that end consumers can later use. production takes place next to the laboratory and involves 3 major companies. one of them is heidelberg talk. the company faces a major problem it's printing machines are optimized for paper but demand for newspapers and books is on the decline. it means to find

a new gross market like digital printing instead of newspapers in the future the machinery will print senses is that a nation or a business of the future. vice fishbone this if you need foresight and a little imagination new technologies tend to be hyped in the beginning but it takes a bit longer for them to really come to life of collaboration with the universities is very good for you we understand each other specific interests and so far that has always gone smoothly and about this here item about. how much is. already invested i'd rather not say. the cooperation at innovation lab has been more expensive and more difficult than originally anticipated for all parties where you know we have different cultures time doesn't play a role it is university if i need to 5 or 10 years to develop something that

doesn't matter to me as a public servant it's palmtop you just kind of want to listen to this my god it's clearly a balancing act on the one hand we have tax listed companies a stakeholder on the other hand universities aren't profit oriented it doesn't really exist that's my balancing act i have to reconcile the interests of both sides. it's an art. but he believes the collaboration has put them far ahead in the global research race digital printing is ready to be launched on the market the next step is to find a market and customers. the automotive industry in his homeland of vietnam has shown interest could the senses be used in car seats asian rivals are intrigued by the new technology. as we're

proud to have found a technology that we produce in germany an expensive location a technology that we deliver to the entire world. we have a lot of inquiries from china asking to visit our companies. if there is no intention to do business with us then we say no right away. when doesn't want to reveal how much the product costs the price is negotiable but he will say that the digital sensors are much less expensive than conventional systems. now teamwork is great as long as you have enough true team players but there are also problems employees who refused to speak to each other denounce colleagues to the boss and create a toxic atmosphere in the workplace conflicts between workers drive down productivity and cost companies time energy and money sometimes only professional

mediation can help. say you have a feeling that someone's looking to point a finger at you but everything they do is designed to make you look bad. in situations like this you are interpreting the other person's behavior and almost creating your own reality. i don't know what to say i can't work with a colleague i can't talk to and broker. because they feel if it's not easy for you to be here because things have already gone so far do you feel the same yes i did so you don't want to be here you'd rather be back in the office working hour and my boss told me i had to take part. of the managers get in touch when they see there's a bad feeling some sort of conflict in a team and something has to change our nobody on all we might get

a call because some colleagues have been at loggerheads for 2 years people are leaving because they're affected by the conflict and they just can't take it anymore. as i've always were of. could so why not my role here is to support you both equally if you know that i'm not here to take sides i'm here to help both of you reach an agreement that you're both happy with the whole of the visit by that means. gives upside we encourage people to take responsibility and we trust that they can sort the problem out we try to get to the root of the problem and figure out how the working relationship can be restored and people come here with intractable positions when a conflict has been dragging on for months or even years we're not going to be able to appeal to their better nature and resolve it in 10 minutes but we all want to be appreciated we want relationships based on mutual trust and respect.

when your colleague says i just like him to listen sometimes what's your response to that. cop. it's the 1st time she said that whatever i say just gets ignored booker i parties the solemn ward embassy is crucial if i try to tease out their feelings an expectations while the other person is a listening on sometimes you get these magic moments why one of them says a right that's what you meant here and that's the moment where they can see the situation from a different point of view there's a mistaken and that's when i get goosebumps because i can tell that the mood is shifting thing start to come down communication becomes mo measured that less hostile they can look one another in the i think inman a prospect they leave with a plan they've agreed on

a specific new approach for example and there's a positive side effect they also learn new ways to cope with conflict and take that with them they're more likely to seek one another out and talk things through than before they came to mediation at is left whatever gets on of the time have well for some of us those kinds of conflicts oh of thing of the past anyway when you're sitting in your home office in your pajamas working in the clouds conflicts with colleagues don't eat never rise that easy all kinds of new categories of worker have emerged in recent years the names most sound jolly but if you are a giggle click oclock crowd work us the daily grind can be brutal digitalization is changing how we work and what our jobs are called. veera is a crowd worker she's a programmer but instead of working for one company on contract she takes

assignments from an on line platform freelanced for a female. she's part of the crowd a huge pool of coders around the world with whom she competes for assignments. that also makes her a cloud worker she uploads her finished programs into the cloud for her customers she can work any time and anywhere she wants but she has no job protection or social security. neither does tim he's a good worker as a self-employed trains men he works in a traditional profession totally analog but he gets his contract one at a time via an internet platform just like an increasing number of pizza delivery workers and house cleaners. and there's thomas he's a click worker he's a student and earns a little on the sign with simple digital gigs he writes product descriptions for

online retailers and headings for photos he has to work quickly to even earn the legal minimum wage. well if you are all those click all crowd work is sitting alone at home all the time that can make you very lonely but there is a remedy for us take your laptop along to a co-working space in the countryside coconuts work creation is one of a range of projects around the world where you can both get away from it all and get on with your work tranquility and companionship on. i need a break from the stress of office life to get away from the city entirely and i found a place that might do the trick a so-called work cation retreat 2 hours outside berlin and 1st question of course would be a lot of work. it's a mixture of work and book or yeah that's the idea that's what it what it is we

didn't make the word out it already existed so. we are in the middle of. this is a little known english speaking village now i'm just getting in from the united states but i lived in i've been living in germany for 7 years now. not retreat she founded as a cross between a hotel and an office share featuring 3 meals a day and why 5 there are similar projects all around the world a lot of it has to do with this change in thinking about lifestyle so you also see a lot of digital nomads so people who have taken like this idea of flexibility beyond the flexible work we can working at home but now they actually would like to be flexible in where they live there's multiple facets we have people from the city from berlin who come people from other parts of germany and then we have international visitors who stay for a little bit longer and they come because they think community aspects know that

they're not alone in their lifestyle they're not they're traveling but they're not tourists they're something else people looking for a refuge far from the urban hustle and bustle like david hall from australia he says self employed auditor and only needs his trusty laptop to take care of business as a small business or no. you don't really get a holiday there are a miles to do every day there are phone calls to return and there's work that needs to be done if you take an extended period of time off it builds up and then it's hard to get back on top of it. alongside him is yet a bear once a journalist from berlin the 2 of them are sharing a workspace for a week. from established the crucial thing for me was having no distractions after getting out you have breakfast together and then you sit down next to each other to work other than that there's nothing to stop the focusing on your work but

immersing myself in a project for an entire week was really good. if i just think it. sounds like just what our reporter is looking for. cocoa not as short for community and concentration in nature the converted manor house can accommodate 50 guests. the rooms are no frills just as well when you're keen to concentrate on your work speaking of which with the peace and quiet help our reporter to crack his writer's block. and one day stay with a single room overnight costs $80.00 euros and another bonus is there's nobody here to make you work and get food in it it's you know we're going to do a guided meditation. first i'd like to ask you to close your eyes i breathe in deeply 3 times breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth.

now i. don't see. this coming you might sometimes find yourself thinking about your next editorial meeting or the next deadline for an article. so try to be conscious of your thoughts and then let that girl. since with. the meditation courses are so relaxing that you might miss lunch. there were 30 guests here today dining together is also a great opportunity to do some networking of course. many of the guests are based in berlin. my god listen from denmark runs a start up that no has a workforce of 49 people but now and again she has to come to the countryside to take a time out i went to yesterday and it was kind of crazy right because i went by bike

10 in the evening and it was very. and i had to go through a forest and at some point i actually heard some what are they called i mean wild boar yeah and i have to admit i was a little bit scared but i made it here to tell you that they have moved over well you know there wolf before i am more the intrepid unearths i have love coming up with ideas and. think about new ways to do fings and this is also one of the reason why i'm here now because i cannot sit in an office all the time. it's easy to see why many guests choose to stay for several days but sadly the daily grind in berlin awaits. where and how we will work in the future is still very much up in the one thing though is for sure automation will

cost many jobs artificial intelligence and robotics are making advances of breakneck speed major growth area is the internet of things linking intelligent machines to each other it is they are telling us the way of the future where we met 2 entrepreneurs who see vast opportunities. a factory that fakes machines that communicate with one another and work autonomous lee. digital advances are revolutionizing production methods. to entrepreneurs have recognized the potential that lies in these changes i mean it you know and diana responded said k. systems their software is intended to enable a new level of automation. and if we believe in the vision that the new users will be people but machines and machines will also negotiate with one another for

example about terms and prices and that's what we have facilitating with our technology. well at least that's the goal of the startups business is based on a very specific software solution. and one that's meant to help companies switch to a new business model. given we are offering engineering companies the possibility of selling their machinery on a flexible use oriented manner their customers don't have to pay for machinery in one big lump sum. they don't have to make such a big investment instead they pay on a flexible pay as you go basis on a monthly basis. one of. the 2 have developed a block chain to do just that it ensures that billing is reliable fair and secure as the men's and bosh are already on their books and they're hoping such big name customers will convince more small and medium sized companies to get on board. or

offering them a kind of a zone tax but for 10 years down the line i think it's clear that a purely hardware based business will no longer be profitable in 5 or 10 years time we say hey with our software you can make the 1st step toward being a service provider. europe's biggest software manufacturer as a p.c. is. the idea. that it surrounds itself with startups that relate to its own core business it's a strategy that many companies are pursuing to remain innovative. today when you look at business i think that those businesses that will be successful are businesses that are ecosystems of ecosystems right that find ways to collaborate with innovators with small companies with large companies so that the outcome for the customer is ultimately going to be bad. for start ups like zakk a systems the opportunity of cooperating with a major corporation is very tempting it means they get training assistance and

attention from potential customers and investors or. they also have something to offer big companies in return the same now but actors are often a blunt what they often lack is the agility to develop a very innovative solution when you've built up a big company then you have developed completely different respondent systems and processes we don't have we can take on a lot more risk and develop a much more innovative solution. which in a way to world isn't going to occur and. businesses are increasingly switching from competition to cooperation but of course only when such networking benefits both parties. well brave new world in the making but speaking human to human good by the good week from me and our team here in berlin you can also find me on twitter of course on facebook.

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