About us
Worklife Centre Ltd is the research, product design and test centre for Peoplespace Consulting Ltd. This website provides access to reviews on furniture, design concepts and technology products, as part of a “Smart Working Knowledge Bank”. Other features include links to case studies, benchmark data and other sources and other sources of useful information.
Halbyn Rich
Experience and skills: Lead consultant and innovator specialising in a uniquely integrated approach to workstyle and workplace transformation, delivering significant cost efficiencies (including radical property cost savings) while creating benefits for staff satisfaction, employment costs, business performance and carbon footprint. Halbyn’s is focused on assisting clients in making the most of their property assets and taking advantage of new alternative ways of working.
- Expert advisor to Smart Economic Growth Project (sponsored by European Union)
- Advisor to South East Development Agency on the business case for Teleworking Hubs
- Invited by www.flexibility.co.uk to become co owner/director
- Project Director for £18m fast track workplace delivery project, supporting Orange Thailand Launch
- Think tank member and design team leader for implementation of flexible working in Orange
- Lead workplace transformation consultant on £10m project for IMG World
Melanie Rich
Experience and Skills: A background in workplace design and visualization . Part of Peoplespace Consulting since 2002 a market-leading workstyle and workplace development organization which specializes in the integrated approach to work environment remodeling with a focus on the preparation and implementation of Smart/Flexible Working accommodation projects.
- Researching current quantifiable data on Flexible Working from the UK and the rest of the world
- Bench Mark data and sector anaylsis for business case benefits
- Translating the human “soft benefits” into measurable bottom line
- Graphic presentations of research
John Gracey
Experience and Skills: Business focused change management Human Resources professional with solid programme / project management expertise, proven skills and experience of facilitating large scale organisational change developed through working in both the private and public sectors.
Energetic and versatile, with a reputation of delivering and overcoming obstacles through the use of an effective consultative style.
- Human Resource, Remote Access Technologies and Workspace design solutions, to clients in Public and Private sectors.
- Managing a programme of pay and benefits modernisation for five Primary Care Trusts in Leeds.
- Orange Telecommunication -Delivering a diverse range of strategic change initiatives across the group, reporting through to various members of the board.
Gary Dixon
Experience and Skills: Twenty years of experience in technology and consulting. Clients have included Ernst and Young, BT, O2, GE, Business Objects, IBM, Orange, TMobile, Caritor. A background in Learning and Development, a consultant with a wealth of experience in client engagements and design/delivery in the context of enterprise technology programmes.
- Experienced in all facets of planning, design and implementation of collaborative working solutions – both technology and new business process .
- Head of Enterprise Business, enabling collaborative products and projects within large scale organisations.
- Technical and Product innovation for SMART Technologies at EY’s Cube project. Interactive Data Walls and Collaborative Software together with unique new business processes provide EY with compelling customer experience zones.
- Part of BT’s Effective Working Environments strategic initiative, the conversion of 6,000 sq. feet of office space to accommodate new technology and working practices. UK Manager for SMART working, responsible for technology design input, delivery and user adoption processes.
Andy Lake
Experience and skills: A graduate of Selwyn College Cambridge, Andy Lake is a specialist in the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for new ways of working and communicating. Activities in this field include implementation of new ways of working in large organisations, and leading research projects into the wider societal and environmental impacts of ICT. Research in this area has in particular focused on the field of “virtual mobility”, and the potential to contribute to sustainability through the replacement or modification of physical travel with online activity.
- Auditing IT provision and developing new online services at the Pensions Management Institute.
- Worked on several research projects for the UK government and the European Commission. Such projects include the European Foresight for Transport project and the STELLA project, which examine future transport scenarios in the context of economic, demographic and technological change, and a TACIS project bringing new work opportunities to former mining areas in Russia and the Ukraine.
- Andy also has worked as an evaluator for the EC Framework Programme (Information Society Technologies), and as a reviewer of bids to the UK Department for Transport.
