Insights from Dreamforce NYC

Peter du ToitI'm the founder of FutureWork IQ where I spend my time assisting businesses to improve their climate literacy so as to understand the projected impacts from the expanding climate crisis and how to adapt their workplaces in the face of these impacts.

At the Dreamforce NYC event this past week during Brett Taylor’s keynote he outlined how Salesforce sees the future of work.

There were a couple of things about this worth highlighting. 

1) The “Digital HQ” going forward will become way *way* more important than the physical HQ, which of course is absolutely essential if you are going to attempt any form of work-from-anywhere. Location is going to become increasingly irrelevant.

2) It was good to see that, although the immediate concerns are safety as a result of what we are dealing with in the moment, they recognised that the next vastly more complex and serious challenge, decarbonising the economy, was also on the agenda. Every single government and business will be increasingly focused on this in the immediate future.

How far down the line are you in formalising these two elements in your business? Putting concrete plans in place to do so ASAP will ensure less disruption as we move deeper into this decade.