A report: The Future of Impactful Work

Rima Patel
Impactful Newsletter
3 min readJul 12, 2021

The world of work is changing fundamentally and quickly. From a mass migration on to digital platforms, a sharper focus on physical and mental wellbeing through the pandemic, an absolute necessity to deliver on diversity, equity and inclusion and the climate crisis increasingly impacting every part of our lives. Every organisation needs to respond and adapt to these challenges.

What these multiple, intersecting challenges also present is an opportunity for forward thinking, innovative leaders to rebuild their organisations to create lasting commercial impact as well as proactively improve people’s lives and protect and regenerate the planet.

Whilst much has been written about the future of work, we noticed that the literature is missing a specific focus on investing in the changes that centre environmental and social impact.

Where organisations can have the biggest impact is how they think about the work they do and how they do it, whilst nurturing their people that do the work too.

So we wrote The Future of Impactful Work, a report for business and third sector leaders looking to #buildbackbetter as they return to the office and adapt to future ways of working. In this report we help you think through the following questions:

  • How can you make the most of the opportunities that all these changes present?
  • How can you take the learnings from covid into how you work in the future?
  • How can you transition smoothly from working during the pandemic into the post covid world?
  • What should your physical office strategy look like given the move to a hybrid world?
  • How can you maximise your employee, customer and wider stakeholder’s health and wellbeing through everything that you do?
  • Can you actively reduce your environmental impact in an operationally efficient way?
  • How can you contribute to lasting social and environmental impact as a team and an organisation?

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Discover insights into:

Impactful physical offices — Designing spaces that are flexible and optimised for collaboration, learning and wellbeing.

Hybrid work — The skills, organisational policies and technology needed to get the biggest benefit from hybrid working.

Organisational culture — How prioritising accessibility, physical health, mental wellbeing and effective performance management will be critical to attract, motivate and retain your people.

What you can do and how Impactful can help — Throughout, we’ve included what you can do to invest in your impact and learnings from the work we do with our partners to develop sustainable, authentic impact strategies.

Increasingly, social and environmental risks are business risks. The organisations that will survive and thrive in the months and years to come will be the ones that recognise that risk and invest in building resilient, adaptable, impact driven organisations.

Matt Leach, CEO, Local Trust commented:

“Coming out of lockdown, we needed fresh ideas and inspiration to help design new ways of working in the post-pandemic era. Impactful provided an abundance of that, engaging with staff and stakeholders, and surveying the changing external environment to produce a report and recommendations that both helped shape our vision and scoped out the practicalities of delivering it.”

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Business and Third Sector leaders looking to invest in your organisational culture, how you work in a post-pandemic world or your office strategy can reach out to Impactful via email to hello@impactful.world or you can book a free 30 min discovery call here.

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Rima Patel
Impactful Newsletter

Learning Design Consultant @PwC. Prev: Founder, Impactful. Fellow @Year Here, Program Leader @Remote Year , Community Manager @escapethecity.