climate deuced green energy solutions and reforestation. decreasing interactive content teaching the next generation about environmental protection and returning to build something for the next generation. to use the multimedia environment series on w. . while some of us and joy the solitude or the good old single office others love to communicate directly with dozens of colleagues in an open plan work space 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 our topic today on maze how and where we will work. and what i'm not here in the studio talking to you why sit like millions of others at my desk in an open plan office the obvious newsroom is a beehive 40 journalist squeezed into an old factory all researching editing video discussing ideas for stories it's pretty lively there as you can imagine and i enjoy 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 a tentative. 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 downswing i think that helps to 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. to $500.00 employees don't have a scientist they work what they like there are more and less private areas and a range of meeting rooms. i am kind of flexible in my way of working

usually work at different places because i i have a hard time focusing and since i have a lot of different places and spaces to sit around where i can stand up i think it's super good. designing open plan offices for clerical staff was a way to save space and money they're cheaper to build an individual office is an estimated 20 percent cheaper on average but a study from sweden found that people who work in standard open plan offices call in sick twice as often as others. another study found that it can take up to 23 minutes for an employee to regain full concentration after being distracted. to the evening things quiet down obviously there are some benefits it's nice to see the colleagues here and there are many nice people working here and you get

a lot of feedback and input from your colleagues working here. the new style open space design can lend itself to new ways of working for example 3 computer programmers are working together yet while one writes the other to offer advice this collaborative approach is meant to help the team catch coding mistakes you get the corporation you need anyway but now you get to immediately. the cycle communication it's much shorter when you sit together from the start and it's clear for me personally very fun way of working. the rule is that they change roles every 8 minutes so they take turns writing code is important that the team you're working in wants to work this way. you can't have any prestige like the i want to be the best developer that's not the point the point is we need to get out there are going to the leverage of best solution. so it's 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 counter certain workplace problems such as rumor mongering and the development of fiefdoms and clique's. we build our way working here are a low fi very important at phase one is transparent so when you walk around here you'll see that we've got no card very few close through said cetera me as the managing director is so it's 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 the work is just too complex and that holds for research and technological development as well the end of a slap in heidelberg base together scores of scientists from universities and companies to work on advanced technology with commercial potential the focus is on organic electronics that sounds difficult and it is that's precisely why so many clever people have to work together. i love my job. i get tired about different cultures and working methods different social classes and mentalities we bring everything together on one platform.

you at quins job is 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. but it's my job you know i'm for it's my job to make the scientists aware of gaps in the market instead of doing research that's not relevant to the market they examine what people need mean things that consumers can later use. production takes place next to the laboratory and involves 3 major companies. one of them is heidelberg or took. 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 growth market like digital printing instead of newspapers in the future the machinery will print senses is that a niche or a business of the future. vice phished on the 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 he. 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 was university if i need to 5 or 10 years to develop something that

doesn't matter to me as a public servant. just kind of what it was and just by 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's just not really is just back up that's my balancing act i have to reconcile the interests of both sides. 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 census be used in car seats asian rivals are intrigued by the new technology what. does it mean that 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. so 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 so what are. you what glenn 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 refuse 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 this colleague i can't talk to him ok. because in school if it's not easy for you to be here because things have already gone so far do you feel the same yes i do so you don't want to be here you'd rather be back in the office working hour and my boss told me i have to take part. of the managers get in touch when they see there's a bad feeling and some sort of conflict in a team and something has to change on all we might get

a call because some colleagues have been at loggerheads for 2 years that people are leaving because they're affected by the conflict and they just can't take it anymore. of others were of. could so why not my role here is to support you both equally you know what i'm not here to take sides i'm here to help both of you reach an agreement that you're both happy with i'm all for it is it by that means. 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 that when a conflict has been dragging on for months or even years we're not going to be able to appeal to their better natures and resolve it in 10 minutes 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 ok. a part is the solemn word empathy is crucial i try to tease out their feelings and expectations while the other person is listening sometimes you get these magic moments where one of them says a right that's what you meant and that's the moment where they can see the situation from a different point of view and that's when i get goose bumps because i can tell that the mood is shifting things start to come down communication becomes no measured less hostile they can look at one another in the i. can with the perspective 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. whatever gets all the time that. well for some of us those kinds of conflicts are a 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 even arise that easy all kinds of new categories of worker have emerged in recent years the names may sound jolly but if you are a giggle click oclock crowd work or the daily grind can be brutal. digitalization in strange how we work and what our jobs are called. 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 freelance for a fee. 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 she has no job protection or social security. neither does tim he's a good worker as a self-employed trains men he works and international profession totally analog but he gets his contracts 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 living on the sign with simple digital get the right 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 or crowd workers sitting alone at home all the time that can make you very lonely but there is a remedy for the 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 the work tranquility and companionship. 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 and the 1st question of course would be what is working for me. it's a mixture of work and vocation or yeah that's the idea that's what it what it is we

didn't make the word out it already existed so. the way we are in the middle of writing the book. 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. the coconut retreat she founded is 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 work in your home but now they actually went 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 ethics know that

they're not alone in their lifestyle they're not they're traveling but they're not turing's there's something else people looking for a refuge far from the urban hustle and bustle like david hall from australia he's a self-employed auditor and only needs his trusty laptop to take care of business as a small business owner now. you don't really get a holiday there are the miles to do every day there are phone calls to return 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. committee that interested in 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 by immersing myself in a project for an entire week was really good but the fact is that it. sounds like just what our reporter is looking for the cocoanut is 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 to meet 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. come to 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 go. and see. the meditation courses are so relaxing that you might miss lunch. there are 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 goat wallace and from denmark runs a startup that know 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 you know there was before i am more the intrepid unearths 5 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. it's. a factory that thinks machines that communicate with one another and work autonomous lee. digital advances are revolutionizing production methods. and these 2 entrepreneurs have recognized the potential that lies in these changes . 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 machines will also negotiate with one another for example

about terms and prices and that's what we're facilitating with our technology. well at least that's the goal the startups business is based on a very specific software solution. one that's meant to help companies switch to a new business model. we're offering engineering companies the possibility of selling their machinery on a flexible use oriented manner from 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 shame 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 sound advice 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 a 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 that k. 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 for us in our bad actors that ought to be 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 responded human 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 be good 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 the w

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