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Smart working

• As the world of work changes in response to many factors – rapidly changing markets and services, different employee expectations and the opportunities presented by IT – organisations are adapting by moving from traditional systems and methods of organising to new ways of communicating and managing.
  
  The CIPD asked Capgemini to undertake research to establish how these changes are feeding through into organisational thinking and structures, and what impact they are having on both performance and employee well-being.
  
  The first phase of the study has been completed and a report, Smart Work: The impact of work organisation and job design, was publilshed in March 2008. It offers the hypothesis that a new organisational paradigm is emerging in organisations, based on smart working principles.
•  View the report of first phase
  
  
• The second phase of the study is looking in greater depth at the experience of a number of organisations that have adopted smart working, and we are inviting readers to provide feedback for this . Mike Emmott, CIPD Adviser on Employee Relations, has prepared a discussion paper setting the context and offering a framework for you to give us your input. 
  
• Go to the discussion paper
  
  
  
• Contact Mike Emmott, CIPD Adviser on Employee Relations