For Seqwater, the transition from a traditional desk arrangement of 1:1 to the new neighbourhood driven agile work environment, a robust management and communication plan was required. This plan addressed employee consultation, regular communications across multiple channels, the opportunity to provide feedback and ask questions as well as an opportunity for the organization to respond and provide feedback on adopted decisions.
However all these mechanisms provide information on the intangible aspects of a new work environment, whilst addressing the very real and important concerns of the employees these strategies also require to educate the employees on how the new workplace functions, the various spaces it offers, the work settings available, the functions and ergonomic use, along with expected behaviours and considerations for fellow employees. This level of communication was provided to the people of Seqwater via an orientation video which describes the vision behind the project, the available spaces, required behaviours and ergonomic use of the various work settings.