New Ways of Working, a research consortium focused on alternative workplace solutions, released its latest research report, Overcoming Barriers to New Ways of Working. Based on interviews with real estate and facility executives and managers at 14 major organizations, the report provides an inside look into the elements of a successful workplace implementation and identifies good/best practices for program success.

“We observed that, despite the rapid adoption of new ways of working in the past several years, penetration into mainstream practice remains low,” said Joe Aki Ouye, co-founder of New Ways of Working (New WOW). “New WOW’s benchmark studies consistently found the same barriers. Cultural issues of entitlement and trust scored highest among the barriers affecting workplace change.” So New WOW decided to investigate the barriers confronting organizations wanting to transition to new ways of working and how these organizations surmounted or were stymied by them.