The office is not going to disappear, but it will require a fresh, new approach. We are optimistic about even more long-term benefits that can be realized if new planning and design principles are adopted. Organizations are giving workers the flexibility they have long been seeking.
People don’t have to waste time commuting. Instead of thriving in work environments optimized for job performance, many people are now juggling working, caring for family members, and for some, home schooling from the same domestic space.īut despite the challenges associated with our “new normal,” individuals, organizations, and communities have also experienced benefits that will be difficult to turn back from. Of course, thriving is also situational, and recent months, regardless of where one has been working, have introduced stressors that have undoubtedly made it more difficult for people to perform their best. Well-designed meeting spaces can contribute to a culture of learning and knowledge sharing, while amenities, access to natural light, and other aesthetic features promote feelings of vitality. Thriving is defined as the joint experience of vitality and learning, and it is linked to better job performance, creativity, well-being, and more positive interactions among colleagues. Over the last several years, we have specifically looked at how office environments help people thrive at work. A more distributed model throughout cities and geographic regions, we believe, would better support employee performance and organizational resiliency while contributing to the improvement of the urban landscape and local communities. With many organizations maintaining work-from-home policies for the foreseeable future, we argue that now is an optimal time to plan for a post-pandemic workplace strategy by revisiting the conventional wisdom behind the centralized office.
The Covid-19 pandemic has abruptly challenged a decade of corporate real estate and workplace design decisions by calling into question the purpose of large centralized office locations.
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