About
Who we are and what we do at Global Workplace Analytics
Kate Lister is a preeminent global authority on the future of work.
She is president of Global Workplace Analytics (GWA), a research and consulting firm that helps employers understand and prepare for the future of work. Her expertise is focused on the workplace, workforce, technological, and other trends that are changing the who, what, when, where, and how of work. She has been helping public and private sector employers optimize their telecommuting/remote/hybrid and flexible work strategies for nearly two decades.
Kate is one of the world’s most widely quoted authorities on remote work/telework/telecommuting.
Global Workplace Analytics’ research has been cited by hundreds of publications including the Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and many others in the U.S. and abroad. Kate has appeared on NPR, The Today Show, CNBC Nightly News, Voice of America, Fox News, and dozens of other TV and radio news programs.
Working with some of the world’s most respected product and service providers, GWA helps make the ‘people, planet, and profit’ business case for workplace change and collaborates to create and share a wide range of original and secondary research.
Proprietary Tools & Unique Capabilities
An extensive digital library with over 6,000 research reports, case studies, and other content related to the technologies, trends, and scientific understandings that are transforming the way people work.
A Telework/Hybrid-Remote Savings Calculator™ that a U.S. General Accountability Office report to Congress called “comprehensive and based on solid research.”
A variety of evidence-based calculators for quantifying the impact of employee engagement, wellness and well-being, technology provisioning, and more.
Model business cases for a wide range of workplace strategies and stakeholders.
Templates for quantifying the impact of workplace change initiatives across a wide range of people, planet, profit, and societal goals.
Knowledge that comes from decades of research and observation, and wisdom that comes from decades of experience.
Let Us Help You Make Work, Work Better For People, Planet, Profit, and Society
Kate Lister, is one of the most sought-after speakers/writers/industry partners in the future of work
Frequently in collaboration with respected industry leaders, Kate has:
Conducted dozens of webinars and delivered scores of speeches on a variety of workplace and technology topics.
Written or co-authored five business books including the U.S. chapter of Telework in the 21st Century (Edward Elgar, 2019).
Written numerous white papers and scores of articles for major media outlets and peer-reviewed journals.
Kate is a member of the strategic advisory board and leadership team of Workplace Evolutionaries (WE), a global group of leading workplace thinkers and doers who are dedicated to “changing the world one workplace at a time.”
As a resident of San Diego, Kate charges extra if she has to travel to a place with temperatures over 75F or less than 65F, humidity greater than 75%, frequent rain, or bugs. She’s willing to make an exception for Hawaii and New Zealand.
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