Media coverage
The Economist cites Future Work in an opinion piece on 25 Aug 2012 called "The Mommy Track"
CNN quotes Alison Maitland and Future Work in an article on 21 Aug 2012 by Susanne Gargiulo titled "Generation Y set to transform office life"
HR Magazine (the US Society for Human Resource Management), July 2012, carries a full-page Q&A by Alice Andors on Future Work titled “End of the 40-Hour Workweek?”
The Conference Board Review, Summer 2012, features Future Work in its ‘Worth Noting’ column on “recent reads that caught our attention”
Personnel Today, 16 July 2012, interviews Peter Thomson on flexible working and the Olympics
Leading Dutch business newspaper FD, 30 June 2012, features a full-page analysis piece by Alison Maitland in its weekend edition, headlined “Wie 'het nieuwe werken' wil omarmen, zal eerst de controle moeten loslaten”
Inside HR, a subscription magazine published by Reed Global, devotes the cover and centre-page spread of its summer 2012 (Issue 8) edition to Future Work, with an article titled “Out of Office”, and a readers’ offer.
Belgian HR magazine Peoplesphere, June 2012, has a two-page interview with Alison Maitland headlined “The dinosaurs will end up disappearing”. The article spans two pages: page one and page two.
The US-based Bonnie Marcus radio show, “GPS Your Career: A Woman’s Guide to Success”, interviews Alison Maitland on the future of women in the workplace, 20 June 2012
Edge Magazine (Institute of Leadership & Management), May-June 2012: “Every manager who cares about the future success of their organisation should read this book. It’s not only very readable but presents some cogent arguments that all organisations should give serious attention to.”
9 Lives for Women blog, May 2012: “The best book on making flexibility happen … rich with insightful data and validating case studies that persuasively make the overwhelming business case for new ways of working—in just about any industry.”
Center for Creative Leadership, April 2012: CCL’s new EMEA regional headquarters and training campus in Brussels “draws inspiration from the groundbreaking research on collaborative working trends recently published in Future Work”.
lifemeetswork.com, April 2012: Podcast interview on Future Work with Alison Maitland and Peter Thomson
Gulf Business, March 2012: “The Revolutionary Future of Work: Employers need to radically change old working models” – article by Alison Maitland
L’Impresa, March 2012: “Don’t Miss the Work Revolution” - edited extract from Future Work published by the leading Italian management magazine in both English and Italian.
InBusiness (Cass Business School magazine), Feb 2012: “Clocking into the 21st century”, opinion piece by Alison Maitland
Financial Times, 25 Jan 2012: “Anywhere, anytime: the future of employment is flexible”, article by Alison Maitland citing case studies from Future Work
Flexibility.co.uk, January 2012 (book review): “This is a radical, challenging and thought-provoking book. It is written in a lively and interesting style that makes it as close to a ‘page turner’ as any management book can be. It’s also done its homework, with up-to-date data and a wide-ranging selection of case studies from around the world. Highly recommended!”
Changeboard.com January 2012 “Wake up HR – the future is here”
Public Service Europe, 20 December 2011: “Europe’s work model no longer fit for purpose”
Business & Gentlemen (Italy), Dec 2011-Feb 2012 edition: “Lavorare nel futuro – l’ufficio in style ‘mobile’”
Compliance-Magazin.de (Germany), 29 November 2011: “Missverhältnis: Arbeitszeiten und Produktivität”
P.T. Magazin(Germany), 22 November 2011: “Gesund, stressfrei und produktiv dank einer Neuordnung der Arbeitswelt
CNN.com, November 2011: “Freedom key to workplace of the future” (Susanne Gargiulo)
Wirtschafts Woche, November 2011: “Work from a hammock” – in German (Kerstin Dämon)
Miami Herald, Vancouver Sun, November 2011: “Big changes coming to the future workplace” (Cindy Krischer Goodman)
The Glass Hammer, “Movers and Shakers”, November 2011: “Future Work was released in the UK in October and in the US on the 8th of November, and discusses the urgency with which corporations need to address a changing workforce as the global marketplace becomes more complex.”
Financial Times, November 2011: “Our industrial revolution work practices are coming under scrutiny: Future Work, a new book by Alison Maitland and Peter Thomson calls for flexible working...”
Professional Manager, November 2011: “Why the way we work has to change - Authors of Future Work, Alison Maitland and Peter Thomson discuss with CMI's Adrian Gaskell How businesses can adapt and thrive in the new world of work”
Recruiter, November 2011: “According to a new book by senior visiting fellow at Cass Business School, Alison Maitland and Peter Thomson, Future Work: How Businesses Can Adapt and Thrive In The New World Of Work, employees are more productive if they have greater autonomy over where, when and how they work.”
Forbes.com, November 2011: “Future Work: Are you and your organization ready for change?” (Interview about the book by Bonnie Marcus)
Jobsite/Insider, November 2011: “Future-proofing your organization” – article about Peter Thomson’s book presentation at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Conference
CMI management news, October 2011: “Working practices set to undergo an ‘imminent revolution’”
HR Bullets, October 2011: “Revolution in work within next decade?”
Personnel Today, October 2011: “Future vision of work patterns revealed”
Independent, October 2011: “The world of work is changing rapidly in the digital age… Legislation must keep up with these radical changes – but not by reverting to the old "them and us" confrontation between employers and employees…” (Op-Ed by Alison Maitland, “Treat people well and they won’t ‘slack’”)
Financial Times, Recruitment, October 2011: “Future Work is a damning indictment of just how wasteful it is to conduct 21st business using 19th century command and control structures. It points out the comical and meaningless results of such ancient attitudes towards work – presenteeism, demotivation, inefficiency, and the rest.” (Peter Whitehead)
People Management, October 2011: “Academics predict ‘work revolution’ in next decade”
Management Today, October 2011: “This book provides challenging and persuasive examples of the need to change and is recommended as a wake-up call to the corporate world.”
WM Magazine: September 2011: “Maitland argues persuasively in her new book, Future Work: How Businesses Can Adapt and Thrive in the New World of Work, co-authored with Peter Thomson, that the traditional 9 to 5 will be the exception in the future because the business case for flexibility will become overwhelming.”