Work has a rich and diverse future

One thing’s for sure: work in future will be done in a greater variety of settings. We work with many large employer organizations who are planning to provide – as well as various WFH option - a new level and multiplicity of setting types within the workplace.

This is real progress, and will make the work day better for everyone. Because our needs themselves are varied; some may vary even day to day. A great line from one architect we were working with a couple of years ago has proved more true than any of us expected: "Human connection is the new luxury!"

Fact is, good work for any sustained period does need a good place to do it. And a really great setting might help spark truly inspirational ideas and stand-out moments - when several of us are engaged with some common hurdle and how to overcome it, to actually be in the room together with that one objective makes a difference (I'd be glad if someone can explain why, but it's true anyway).

Besides, work is taking new and more empowered and creative forms; radically new compared to even 10 or 20 years ago. Even further back, Peter Drucker as a great observer and thinker saw early in the 'computer age', the concept of the knowledge worker. Now, the kind of geniuses who can imagine a whole new app to make a difficult, clunky process into a brilliantly easy path - a few choices through clicks - are redefining how work is done and what delivers the most value for customers, staff, shareholders; even what activities organizations exist for.

A new level of agency for all is beginning to show itself in small ways, even in providing in more ways, for more needs, than ever before, both outside and inside workplaces. Fully support that!