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Hi everyone, my
name's John Hopkins
and I an Associate Professor of
Management from Swinburne
University of Technology
in Melbourne Australia,
and it's my pleasure to
join me here today to
share some findings
with you from
a research project I was
involved in at the end of
2022 entitled Third Places:
A healthy alternative to working
from home which involved
an investigation into
the rising trend
of using hospitality
venues such as cafes,
bars, and restaurants as
casual places of work.
This talk is part
of the future work
now series of Henry
Stewart talks.
I'll begin by giving you a
brief overview of the research,
some background context,
discuss the methods
that we used and the
motivations behind the study,
then I'll discuss some of the
key findings and after that,
I'll finish with
some final thoughts
of future predictions.
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The COVID 19 pandemic has
fundamentally changed the
way we think about work.
Work arrangements for
many have shifted away
from the full-time
office-based model to
new hybrid ways of working
which combine time
spent in the
traditional workplace
with time working remotely.
Instead of being central
to everything we
do, visits to the
office have now
become far more intentional for
specific purposes
like collaboration,
training, team-building, and
mentoring, leaving other tasks
to be primarily
conducted remotely.
Whilst working remotely is often
synonymous with working
from home, it can
also involve a range of what are
called third places
such as cafes,
restaurants, libraries
and even pubs.
Third places like these
have historically
played an important role in
community building but are
now starting to feature more
prominently as alternative
work locations as
digital technologies and
hybrid work arrangements make
the activities of work
more location-independent
than ever before.
