Digital Equity: Creating Equity Around Hybrid Collaboration

Presented by: Allsteel

Length: 1 hour

Credits: AIA: DEQ2024 (HSW), IDCEC: 121127 (HSW)

In hybrid work environments, it’s vital to consider both virtual and in-person attendees. Digital Equity promotes balanced participation, inclusiveness, and innovation by ensuring all voices are heard.

This course covers collaboration’s three aspects (people, place, and technology) and offers ways to improve culture, space design, and support systems for a more inclusive experience.

Learning Objectives:

• Introduce Digital Equity, an important consideration for creating working environments that allow all employees, remote and in-person, to feel though they are equal participants, fostering positive health and welfare.

• Describe design considerations for Digital Equity to create environments where all employees feel as though they are supported and considered.

• Share how psychological safety and empathic design and other cultural permissions can foster inclusiveness and equity among employees in hybrid environments.

• Discuss ways technology considerations can foster different experiences in the space for different applications and worker types.