It is an action-packed couple of days in London, at the KPMG Ignition Center for the KPMG Future of Work Hackathon. Teams of researchers, professionals and innovators from a range of backgrounds of expertise came together to come up with solutions to tackle some of the pressing questions around the future of work:

• What technologies will employees and employers need in the future?
• How do we break down the barriers to truly global working with people in different time zones and territories?
• How do we bring the benefits of a face-to-face experience into the digital world?
• How do we create a sense of culture and belonging in the hybrid workplace?

The teams had 48 hours to to ideate, prototype and pitch their ideas to the panel of judges (including me):

The future of work hackathon is on! @ThinkLabCam is here with @KPMG, @Microsoft teams to imagine how we work, and what the near future of work might look like. #London #futureofwork #cambridge pic.twitter.com/xt72k8ZyiW

— Tyler Shores (@tylershores) April 21, 2022

The energy in the area was palpable — nothing quite like bringing together a ton of creative and entrepreneurial thinking in a goal-focused environment to see what everyone can come up with! And the filming crew was hard at work throughout, kind of felt like being in an episode of The Office:

The film and camera folks have been hard at work this week during the @ThinkLabCam & @KPMG hackathon action. Here’s a rare behind the behind-the-scenes look: pic.twitter.com/aZEybcmveF

— Tyler Shores (@tylershores) April 22, 2022

It was also a pleasure to have Thomas Roulet from the Judge Business School join to talk about his research on remote working:

Thank you to the inimitable @thomroulet for joining us at last week’s big future of work hackathon at the @kpmguk Ignition Centre in London!

Lots of food for thought from the latest research — here are some shots of the man in action 🎥@KingsELab @CambridgeMBA pic.twitter.com/LLmElKYq48

— Tyler Shores (@tylershores) April 28, 2022

You can read more about Thomas’ work in this brilliant article over at MIT Sloan Management Review: How Shifts in Remote Behavior Affect Employee Well-Being