Stefan Rief is director at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO, where he is responsible for the research area of organizational development and work design. For more than a decade he has been researching and accompanying the developments in office and knowledge work there. Stefan is co-author and co-editor of numerous publications such as Working Environments 4.0, Fascination Coworking, Corporate Innovation Labs, Future Hotel Buildings 2052 and, most recently, the study "Working in the Corona Pandemic - on the way to the New Normal". At the universities of Stuttgart and Hanover, Stefan is a lecturer for work design in the office.