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The hybridization of service work - the ability to work from several different locations - questions the future of the workplace. For a year, a group of twenty experts met regularly to imagine a desirable future. Sometimes allowing themselves utopian reflections, the group built a new vision based on attractiveness and the reconciliation of the different points of view that are today exacerbated by the hybridization of work: how to reconcile individual, managerial, organizational and finally societal considerations?

How does the organizational hierarchy materialize in the hierarchy of office spaces in the company?

Since the 2010s, companies have been actively interested in new management and organization methods (NMMO): holacracy, agile companies, liberated companies or even "opal"... these are all fashionable labels that often suffer from vague definitions and confuse players more than they enlighten them to face the current organizational challenges. This does not prevent them from being the object of a strong craze, leading us to wonder whether we are facing real innovations or simple fashion effects.

Arnaud Pagès is a journalist. He is interested in environmental issues in the broadest sense, with a focus on the urban dimension. He presents here his new book Villes de demain, Michel Lafon, 2022.

While it is recognized that companies have a role to play in improving their environmental performance, research has shown that simply implementing organizational practices is not enough to engage employees in greening. 

BIM, for "Building Information Model/Modeling/Management", is becoming more and more widespread. This work method is based on a digital representation of the building composed of one or more 3D models filled with numerous data and accompanied by hundreds of spreadsheets and other documents. Add to this the collaborative aspect of the process orchestrating the interactions between an ever increasing number of participants, the project can quickly become a joyful mess.