uh there's no easy way around . That
change is hard and I don't believe we
could have done this two years ago
without a forcing function that pushed
us all into our homes to tell the work .
Yeah .
Hello everyone . I'm Colonel Kevin
Mantovani , the vice commander of A . F .
I . M . S . C . The Air Force's
installation and mission support center .
What you're seeing behind me is the
creation of Office of the Future . So
we're starting here in Bay for the area
that you see getting torn down behind
me was previously occupied by 65 work
cubicles and that's going to be
replaced by new furniture . Uh it will
be a mix between booths , high top
tables , smaller conference tables that
people can gather around the office of
the future . What is that , you ask it ?
It's actually a radical new way of
working . It's born from
innovation and lessons learned
throughout the pandemic office of the
future is basically about talent
management and mission effectiveness .
How do we retain and attract the people
that can do the job and can do it most
effectively . And uh we are seeing it
here at J . B . S . A Black win as an
example for the rest of the Air Force
office of the future is going to
provide a hybrid work environment where
you think a tech company would go to
work . It's gonna look like this .
About 100 cubicles are going to be
removed in bay three and four and then
we have a big design for basics . The
other bays will quickly follow when you
come into the building . You're going
to come in to collaborate . What we're
thinking is work from home . The way
we've done during the pandemic , we've
been absolutely successful but we're
gonna want to come together in person
too . So we're going to reconfigure a
lot of our workspaces . We're going to
have collaboration spaces ,
neighborhoods , hotels that you can
check out using your smartphone . Well ,
one of the very interesting things that
we're looking to utilize as we bring
people back to the building are the
capabilities to schedule your work
workspace through a mobile app allows
you to do it on your phone . You can do
it in real time when you're in the
building in person or if you know the
dates and times that you're expected to
be in the building , can all be
scheduled right through your phone
either ahead of time or on the fly . We
can also go and schedule conference
rooms now through the app instead of
going through what most people might be
used to is going through a front office
where a secretary or somebody has
Access to a conference room calendar .
Now it will all be available through
the app . There'll be multiple teen
rooms here in Bay four . Also
additional ones in Bay three that we're
looking to install with the new
furniture that we're gonna be having .
One thing that's been hard to replicate
in a tele work environment . Is that
connectedness , the connective tissue
that we have when we collaborate in
person . So as Office of the future
unveils our culture is so important to
us and I . M . S . C . And we'll find
ways to make sure that the connective
tissues of our culture remain just to
have that opportunity to come back once
twice a week to collaborate on projects
and see how we can do better . Just
makes their job even more effective . I
think coming in once or twice a week to
put eyes on your subordinates , your
peers or supervisors , it not only
gives them insight to how you're doing ,
contribute to the mission , but how you
doing your personal life as well . We
believe that office of the future will
be the benchmark for other
organizations within a Fmc and within
the Air Force that are all looking to
do something similar as we come out of
the pandemic and we come back into the
building when you come back into
whatever building you're working in ,
what should it look like ? We believe
Office of the Future will be that
future . You'll come together to
connect to collaborate to innovate
anytime anyplace across the I . M . S .
C . Enterprise . As you can see ,
there's a lot to be excited about with
our Office of the future , but it's not
just for JBs . A . It's not just for I .
M . S . C . Uh We are the Air Force's
installation and mission support
experts . So what we're doing is much
larger . We want to write it down an
experiment inside our own house first ,
but then very shortly and quickly , we
want to scale this across a Fmc ,
across the Air Force , across whoever
wants to do an office of the future
like us .
Mm .
Yeah , yeah .