WORKsHOW2025 The first international conference on flexible work models and the future of work was a blast!
With all speakers and their evidenced- based case studies and market trials, we successfully kick-started the new milestone with a spectacular program:
🟧 From the historical transition from a 6-day workweek to a 5-day week, to the voice of Generation Z and Alpha in the oxford-style debate and the premiere of the report 'Flex_Ability. Gen Z & Gen Alfa. New Era of Work,’ we covered high level evolution of work models until the future of work
🟧 We showcased outstanding evidence based case studies presented by CEOs and Transformation Leaders, and HRD from critical services, media, law firm, technology, and corporations in Poland, Portugal, Germany, and the UK.
🟧 We also discussed the results of field trials involving dozens of companies in the UK and Portugal and mega trends in labour market in Poland
🟧 Speakers joined us from Warsaw, Gdańsk, Kraków, the UK, Portugal, Canada, and Singapore, traveling in Asia🌍 We connected the World to focus on the strategic topics that matter‼️
🟧 The flexible work models discussed included the 4-day workweek, 6-hour workday, 7-hour workday and self-organized teams, along with the latest trends in building workplace as the cultureplace
🟧 The online format in the green studio provided us with excellent conditions for interactive presentations, Q&A sessions with participants, and top-level conference branding
This is a post to THANK YOU, everyone who was part of WORKsHOW2025 on the stage: professor Brendan Burchell the University of Cambridge, professor Rita Fontinha Henley Business School, Joe O’Connor CEO Work Time Reduction, Andrzej Kubisiak Expert Rynku Pracy, Łukasz Szymula CEE General Manager TradeDoubler, professor Katarzyna Januszkiewicz Uniwersytet SWPS Nauka dla Biznesu, Marcin Durlak Managing Partner IMD Corporate the UK, Timo Romer Managing Partner Tektit Consulting Germany, Michael Sliwinski CEO Nozbe, Karolina Marzantowicz CEO Harbour4Growth, Michal Kibil Managing Partner DGTL, Alina Strześniewska CEO Radio Kolor, Alexandra Mendes HR Director Crioestaminal Portugal, Piotr Szykowny Head of Beyond Agile Transformation Bank BNP Paribas, Krzysztof Szymczak Managing Partner Master Management Poland, Michał Michalczuk Software Consultant & Engineer Tektit Consulting, Dymitr Malcew Design Director Gensler
and the oxford debate participants:
Moderator: Daria Schvedova, University SWPS student and Europarlament of Youth member
& Gen Z: Weronika Chmielewska, Weronika Tomiak, Wiktoria Nowak, Wiktoria Bernacka, Magdalena Szymczyk and Gen Alpha: Karol Zaucha Tymon Grabowski
and WORKsHOW2025 ambassadors, partners, all great participants of the oxford debate project,
and the entire ‚one and the only’ WORKsHOW2025 Aleksandra Tobiasz OlsonTOday & Stream Space Team We created this event together!
Special huge „thank you” to the engaged participants who joined us – take the ideas and materials from the conference into your companies, networks, discussions, and business decisions.
Here are my first conclusions from the event:
📌 Impossible is not a fact, it is an opinion. 💯% confirmed
📌 There is no „one-size-fits-all model” Flexibility is the future of work.
Prepare- test – IF „yes” to GO”, measure and optimize
📌 WORKsHOW is beginning to develop into a community of mindsets
