ABSTRACT
Activity-Based Working (ABW) was introduced to Australia in 2009 when Macquarie Bank engaged ABW founders Veldhoen + Company to develop their workplace strategy. ABW has since become one of the mainstays of knowledge workplaces in Australia. In 2013, the City of Casey, a local municipality in the state of Victoria, was prompted to envision their future way of working with the construction of a new precinct. In the lead up to the opening of the precinct in late 2017, the City of Casey envisioned a new workplace strategy that would help enable their organisational and cultural goals. It would be the first of multiple workplace strategies, taking an iterative approach of an activity-based way of working. In the process, the City of Casey used the workplace strategy as a methodology to respond to the workplace disruption caused by the pandemic whilst also laying the foundations for a post-pandemic way of working.
