The Office Chronicles

 Tracy Hawkins, Vice President of Real Estate & Workplace and Remote Experience at Twitter, joins Kursty to discuss whether offices are dead. Tune in to learn: If you should reduce your office space post-pandemic; How you can create a workplace culture even if you only work remotely; How to keep people connected even when everyone is working remotely.Support the showTimestamps[00:19] Episode overview and who is Tracy Hawkins?[03:00] What does it mean to be in charge of remote work experience?[05:41] How did Twitter support employees to adapt their homes to remote work? [09:38] What are the main lessons from dealing with the challenges of the pandemic at Twitter?[12:26] Is the office dead? [16:00] Are the COVID changes in the workplace temporary? [19:14] Useful tools for remote work. [21:08] How do you build a workplace experience if you are only working remotely? [23:35] Will Twitter be reducing its office space?[27:35] Twitter’s office re-entry plan. 3 Key Highlights Asynchronous work will likely be part of the future of work. People in the future will be able to work on their own schedules, at times that are convenient to them. The office is a tool. Therefore, it wouldn’t make sense to kill it or declare it dead. Rather, the way we use the tool (that is the office) will merely shift.Useful tools for remote work include Google Docs and Salesforce. They can also be great for managing health check ins.  Links Connect with Tracy Hawkins: LinkedIn | Twitter | Real Estate and the Workplace TwitterConnect with Kursty Groves: LinkedIn | TwitterSupport the showSupport the showFollow The Office Chronicles Linkedin page for more information, to share an idea for an episode or start a conversation around any f the topics covered in the show.

A podcast that charts the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on workplaces.Join author, professor and workplace consultant  Kursty Grovesas she gathers stories and learnings from influential organisations as they tackle the question: will the office ever be the same again?Each episode explores the moments during and post-pandemic when extraordinary people are reimagining and reshaping workplaces to support people through this unprecedented time – from tech giants with extended work-from-home policies, fully-remote businesses to COVID-safe coworking and collaboration hubs. Support the showSupport the showFollow The Office Chronicles Linkedin page for more information, to share an idea for an episode or start a conversation around any f the topics covered in the show.