Still brilliant a decade later.... and even prophetic!

I never thought I'd see the day when I'd sit and watch an entire 7-minute KZfaq advert in its entirety. Came over here just to give the video a thumbs up and say great work.

Work isn't a place you go, it's something you do. The future of work is a place where each person is 100% accountable and 100% autonomous and managers manage the work, not the people. Welcome to the 21st century!

So true, I can't really understand how so many people accept to give away their lives waking up in a precise time, eating in some location at a fixed time, just wasting time until they can go "home" to resume the real life for couple minutes until they need to go back to sleep to get ready for a new day.

Oh my God, I am absolutely blown away at the level of detail in these animations, they have really evolved into something incredible.

No matter what you do and how you do it you still need to get the job done. Productivity varies among each and every one of us.

I absolutely love these videos and it seems like they are very hard to make, so thanks so much RSA:)

Why did RSA stop doing these? The value is a wildly tremendous.

Great as always. Keep the RSA Animates coming.

This theory sound prophetic now, in this new covid era.

I can completely relate to this. I have done exact 100% how this has been described. If I work from home, I am working till 8 or 9 in the evening. My productivity is more which is again due to guilt that I am not in the office. In the office, there is no personal space, I am swamped with queries, people asking me stuff. The only option, I have left is: Close my communicator, close my outlook, log out from office phone, put on my music and get some creativity or focus on my value addition tasks

It is a common problem, sometimes companies don't risk giving their employees the "full space" the problem is culture and trust, very well put in the lecture, brilliant SketchWork RSA am going straight to the lecture link, thanks!

Absoloutely love RSA animate! So interesting and keeps me engaged! :D

Wonderful! I hope to see more animates in the future!

Great video showing the need for employers & employees to embrace the change in collaborative working!

love watching these animated ones. more more more!

Beautifully creative! Thanks :)) PEACE AND LOVE to all

When I worked at Virgin, the call centre team had to take a spoon from a pot to be able to go to the toilet. There were not enough spoons for the whole team, which created a situation where the open plan desk pod had to be kept populated to a certain level. The supervisor of the floor was higher up on a plinth, so they could look down and across the call centre floor. It was like a Richard Branson brand of prison.

This! So much of this rings true. Work in the 21st century must be more about trust, value creation, and finding the right environment to nurture innovation than about sticking to the depressing industrial models of the past.

i connect with everything said here. working in a trusted environnment makes me want to work twice as hard. also those drawings are just great and i wonder how much time it took to make that.

Amazing Animation! seriously, bravo!

Amazing illustrations! I love it.

one of the best presentations addressing this workplace trust problem.

Amazing perspectives. Bringing your own device becomes bringing that device anywhere. The question that arises for me is whether or not we have evolved our ability connect to the point where we can adjust for the lost benefit of what can happen when people collide at work and just start talking. But maybe they are too busy for that anyway.

I'm always amazed by your talent and insights, Mr RSA.

Absolutely bloody brilliant!

Interesting! I've been in each of these places, from open plan to home to client's place to café to... It comes down to choice and the best place to work for the given task / people / project. Results, not hours spent!

Yay! An RSA Animate after so long.

Wow I love the drawings! Having a good visual is 100x more effective.

These animations are fantastic!

It was good to see RSA animate again. :)

Wow, food for thought

Re-Imagining Work - An outstanding presentation. The animated graphics are just bloody brilliant. Enjoy!

The video echoes the other RSA Animate video about outdated educational systems in that, like school, some of the way work is organised is a relic of the industrial revolution and needs to change. Great stuff!

i loved this!

This needs researching! I will have to do this next semester!

Nice points. And incredible artwork!

Love this

that's a good one. hats off guys.

I love this! Truer were never drawn!

And now after 8 years we can see employees demanding this work culture which is triggered by covid19 pandemic leading to The Great Resignation. Anyways, we can slightly see the changes and flexibility mentioned in the animation in today's world. wonderful presentation!

wonderful ideas!

Wonderful!

Very interesting presentation which sums up what we are seeking to achieve in our estate at Sheffield Hallam University

This is very good, I love the animation and it does make you think....

Wonderful drawings !

I love the use of Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars in this! Get's the point across quite well!

It's been WAAAAAAY to long since we had one of these.

wonderful!

Superb!

My manager at work would think this vid is some voodoo mambo jambo.

After watching the section comparing open office spaces to the savannah, read Foucalt writing about prison design and the panopticon.

I do construction but wow the people who made this video have insane talent.

Finally !

brilliant!

Is there any desktop wallpapers from your amazing drawings?

I always like the drawing ^^

Amen to that, brother.

Well Done Bravo!

What exactly do people do at most of these desk jobs?

Really cool animation..

It is so true it hurts...!

Hi, do you print and sell the finished drawing?

At my work the measure of how busy you are seems to be how many unread emails you have in your inbox. And we have an open plan workspace where 1/3 of the staff wear headphones to cut out the noise of other people. Creating my own personal space somehow @4:16

Is anyone else having the same issue with the focus being off about 3 minutes into the video. after that point I no longer can read the text.

Well said.

so true! Was wondering if you sell the whole pictre as a wall-wide poster ?? Would make some effects in the office ;-)

Emailing people 3 desks away is only to have its own back covered. It happens too often then just having a talk leads to be nothing done. That is why having it written down sets sort of a comittment and a reminder.

Not only that: new technology will not only make certain jobs obsolete, it will create jobs as well. Technologies need to be developed, implemented and maintained, which requires people doing jobs that weren't there before.

When enterprises actually embrace remote working and BYOD etc, they improve DR preparedness and Business Continuity assurance. The most difficult part of BC is the access and by removing site and network dependence, this part of the problem is substantially removed.

I love the statements about minute 7:01 to 7:15....I run into this a lot. I will bombard you with emails to prove I am of value, whilst all the while simply proving that my roles is not worthwhile, because I have to bombard you with emails to try to convince you I am doing something of value.

love all the pop culture references! fun!

This is a brilliant idea, and I am seeing it in use at my work place. But my question is, does this not lead to further disengagement amongst people and co-workers?

Is there a way to have all the speech written?

Standardisation is also about quality assurance.

please add more videos

Why do people work? They work to provide the necessities of life for their families. Count the steps between the work and the necessities, realize there is loss at every step, and let's stop trying to outsource our needs. We need each other. Trust in life, daring to be wrong, and putting an end to the commodification of brilliance are key.

"How do you like you're chicken coop?"...."Oh, I like mine with lots of clean saw dust on the floor."...."Are you kidding, it makes my allergies go crazy, definitely clean newsprint, changed at least twice a week." ...."You're both dead wrong, the new way is out in the open, under the open sky, I scratch and peck better in the sunlight."

And 2 years after the first COVID lockdown, working at/from home, home schooling (that went well, not for most)…..we need a reboot before government/managers send us right “back to the office” to the same old….

I would have liked to have heard his thoughts on a novel setup like Valve's. From what I've heard, they seem to at least try to run things in a way that resembles what he was getting at, though there are no doubt differences

Gosh...I don't recall it saying that this is the *only* cause of unhappiness. There can be more than one problem and more than one solution.

just to be clear, the video was about letting your employees be able to choose how they want to get things done, as whatever title or job they have, right? i've never worked with a company or corporation so i wouldn't know how it's like, but i'm guessing there's a lot of restrictions and deadline for things to be done? i think the concept from the video is agreeable, i mean it's like college. u get to choose your classes and how you want to study.

I like this one

How to get people to work and REALLY get things done: pay by the job, not by the hour.

Creativity, sharing, collaboration and meaningful engagement by maximising new technology, networking and more flexibility requires a call to action to break down the barriers that have dominated the work place pecking order... if only!

This concept will be limited to the type of work being done. It's easy for people in IT, Digital Marketing, Online sales, and many related fields that don't depend much on location for productivity. But for people who manufacture your toothpaste, your toothbrush, your home cleaning products, the laptops you use for your remote work, for people who raise hogs, chickens, cows from which you get your daily food, milk, and ice cream, and even the steamed milk used for your cafe latte, for the people who grow vegetables and other green produce which you enjoy for your lunch, who harvest the honey used for many of your baked products you enjoy while sipping your coffee, who grow coffee beans and do the needed process for you to get the nice cup of coffee you enjoy while doing your remote work, for the people who run the coffee shops you so love to work in, who run and manage the co-working spaces you espouse for, the people who build your cars, or repair the roads for you to get to those lovely places you can choose to work in, for those who run the government departments and services that you enjoy while working remotely, for the people who run the electric power grid, or mine the minerals that make up your mobile devices, for the people who run the water supply systems so that you get to drink water and have a shower before you run off to your remote work space, and basically, for 90% or the majority of people and industries that make up the vast and interconnected world we have, your idea does not apply to. You easily take the majority for granted, or worse, not even seriously consider the majority of the kinds of work that don't have the luxury of choosing where to work, because you are so myopically focused on your own world view, and the way you want to re-imagine work, and the spaces we should use to work in, that you mistakenly think that your kind of work is representative of the majority. Sorry, your living and working in your own bubble.

Like all the older movie and TV show references

I get new ideas when I home office and do my laundry during meeting breaks :D But I have to say if you have kids at home, home office can be impossible.

Very much in line with Ken Robinson and what he preaches about education... FREEDOM to the people. But it's hard to break the chains, isn't it?

Looks like we are looking to encorporate the "right side of the brain" thinking into our work force.

Nice art work guys! Let us know if you want us to make your next video.

if life today was so bad someone would come up with something better

71% are watching this from work

I agree to large extent with what Thomas A. Powell says about the video overgeneralizing--freedom being more appropriate for some people than others. In a parallel vein, the critique of open plan offices echoes the research summarized by Susan Cain in "Quiet": The Power of Introverts..." and I'm thinking freedom might benefit people of one temperament more than those of another temperament (example: introverts vs. extroverts).

I find the part where the speaker says that "work no longer is about infrastructure because in the society we live in today work can be accomplished at any place and at any time" to be very interesting. But my question to this would be, if productivity is now an issue of us not embracing technology, and sharing knowledge, then how can we as people change it to where we do embrace such ideals? In my opinion thow mindset where we don't ask questions, we don't try to be creative, originates from the school system; and of Thats the case then perhaps we should consider looking there as opposed to the work place.

The talk is really good, but I had to watch it twice because the endless references to the Matrix and Office Space was too much to bear

Since the times of Plato smart people have been trying to change the way of organization and management from traditional hierarchy to something more humanistic. Now we have better tools for that. Networks, networks, networks...

And we'll all have jet packs and light sabers. It's gonna be sweet.

I wrote a paper about office space that would be conveniently located in outlying communities, with secure access to company networks located within congested cities.

Anyone who likes this talk should check out how Valve and Blizzard handle their workers' office spaces. I'm pretty sure Google has it pretty similar to those as well, but it's amazing to say the least.