{"id":120135,"date":"2020-10-14T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=120135"},"modified":"2021-11-30T11:23:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T19:23:27","slug":"cc-flexwork-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/cc-flexwork-coalition\/","title":{"rendered":"Palo Alto Networks, Box, Splunk, Uber and Zoom Form FLEXWORK Coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  class=\"alignright wp-image-120136 lozad\"  data-src=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Blog-Flexwork-image.png\" alt=\"The FLEXWORK Coalition logo\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Palo Alto Networks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.box.com\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\" ><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Box<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.splunk.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\" ><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Splunk<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uber.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\" ><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uber<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/zoom.com\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\" ><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zoom<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> today announced the FLEXWORK Coalition, bringing together industry leaders to focus on the future of work and accelerate the development of new employee-centric work practices around employee choice and flexibility.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Coalition is a community that\u2019s reimagining the workplace of the future, including areas such as physical work location, learning and development, leadership and employee benefits. It seeks to help guide companies forward today as well as beyond the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cCOVID has required all of us to be nimble, and has shown us the resilience that our organizations and people have to adapt to changing circumstances,\u201d said Nikesh Arora, chairman and CEO, Palo Alto Networks. \u201cIt has also highlighted areas of opportunity where we can bring about workplace change sooner. We all agree: The future of work requires us to be adaptable and shift towards more employee choice and flexibility \u2013 in everything from work location, to benefits, to learning.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>A Playbook for the Future of Work<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From questions about what parts of a business can adapt to increased remote working, to fostering culture remotely or approaching virtual onboarding, organizations are rethinking work practices without proven processes or data for guidance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The FLEXWORK Coalition brings together companies with shared values and goals to develop perspectives, approaches and solutions, and share the results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Driven by chief people officers and executive leadership, the Coalition will create case studies and share learnings, culminating in an industry playbook to help business leaders navigate this climate while fostering a supportive, safe, productive and inclusive workplace for their employees. Case studies already developed by the companies include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Palo Alto Networks:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Reimagining Learning: Sales Kick Off in a Virtual World<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zoom: Onboarding Case Study<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Box: Reimagining Company Learning in a Virtual World<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Splunk: Virtual Splunktern Program<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During Zoomtopia, the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> chief people officers from the founding companies shared their experiences and the work each company has done so far, and they\u2019re seeking more perspectives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Hear From the Founding CEOs<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"In this rapidly changing work-from-anywhere world, it has never been more important for organizations to bridge the physical and virtual way of working through a digital workplace, while also supporting employees through today's challenges,\" said Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO, Box. \u201cWe look forward to collaborating with leading organizations like Palo Alto Networks, Splunk, Uber and Zoom, to navigate these unprecedented times and build a framework for a flexible work environment where employees can thrive.\"<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAt Splunk, we believe employees do their best work when they have a say in their workplace; that\u2019s why we continue to listen closely to our employees and create an environment where people can have an engaging personalized experience,\u201d said Doug Merritt, president, CEO and board member, Splunk. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to be a founding member of the FLEXWORK Coalition as we work towards developing an open-source community that will help organizations around the world learn and create their workplace of the future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe can play a critical role in bringing our cities back to life by not only powering local mobility and commerce but also providing flexible work opportunities at scale,\" said Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO, Uber. \u201cUber is excited to join the FLEXWORK Coalition as a founding member in the pursuit of building innovative workspaces to empower our people to operate at their best, and to support our communities' safety and security.\"<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe future of work will require more flexibility and an openness to experiment with new ideas to help employees feel supported and productive,\u201d said Eric S. Yuan, CEO, Zoom. \u201cThe<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> FLEXWORK Coalition<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will share best practices and learnings to help enable organizations to build a workforce model that prioritizes safety and enables employees to work in a way that fits their life circumstances.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FLEXWORK Coalition is a community accelerating the development of innovative employee-centric working models to shape the workplace of the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":120136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6719],"tags":[7276,7328],"coauthors":[7327],"class_list":["post-120135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-company-culture","tag-flexwork","tag-workplace-of-the-future"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Blog-Flexwork-image.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147532,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120135\/revisions\/147532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120135"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=120135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}