The last 2 years have seen an exponential acceleration in the global trend towards flexible and hybrid ways of office working. Workforces are now returning (or beginning to return) to their offices, to be among their teams, colleagues and customers.
But with current averages of just 30% space occupancy, workplace models look dramatically different to how they looked back in 2019.
The answer is multi-layered. For all the benefits to staff of home working, recent research studies have consistently shown that there are crucial elements of work life that, for most, ‘working from home’ simply cannot provide, including: