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The Future Workplace: Reimagining the Office for the Twenty-first Century

In: European Cities After COVID-19

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  • Chris Kane

    (Six Ideas UK)

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The debate about the future of the office has taken on a life of its own following the 2020 lockdowns. The viability of the home working experiment at scale has spawned lots of challenges and opportunities. So much so that the traditional ecosystem of commercial property investment is under challenge, together with the viability of the traditional office from both the supplier and users’ perspective and even the future of city centres is being evaluated. COVID-19 has shifted the focus to the people aspect of the equation and how and where work will be carried out given the rise in importance of employee health and wellbeing. Never before has there been a greater need for a holistic approach to reimagining the office for the twenty-first century. This chapter is based on engaging a broad range of diverse contributors with a wealth of experience and expertise in dealing with various aspects of the built, technological and workplace landscape, including the health, wellbeing, anthropological, behavioural change and sustainability factors. It concludes that the traditional ‘one size fits all’ approach is obsolete and we need to frame fresh perspectives on both the delivery and consumption of commercial real estate.

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  • Chris Kane, 2022. "The Future Workplace: Reimagining the Office for the Twenty-first Century," Future of Business and Finance, in: Tobias Just & Franziska Plößl (ed.), European Cities After COVID-19, pages 179-195, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:fuobcp:978-3-030-89788-8_16
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-89788-8_16
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