Form, interactivity, boundaries of place, and wellness are a few of the factors changing the modern office.
- Flexibility provides opportunities for disruption, idea sharing, and communication.
- Hearing more, seeing more, being more available makes it easier to collaborate.
- Knowledge workers take disruptive influences from one group and assimilate those into another.
- As the workplace tracks activity for personal goals, data provides insight for workplace consultants.
- Wearables can impact wellness, motivation levels, communication, job satisfaction, human resources management, and privacy policies.
- Wearables are quantifying movement in the workplace and helping us plan space smarter.
- Workplace computing and analytics is at a tipping point.
- Robots—in some shape or form—are more mainstream in the office and workplace design must evolve to accommodate this: Space must be allocated for storage and charging, and stairs and doors are unnavigable for these forms.
- “Digital assistants” who step in on behalf of associates for meetings are redefining productivity.
- Virtual social networking and sensory media has triggered organizations to redefine “work.”
- With the demand for individual control, mass customization is mainstream.
- Customization and the proliferation of mobility has positioned office operation as a place of pop-up.
- Desire for fresh and unplanned experiences, as seen in coworking spaces, has reinvented the office.
- We continue to analyze the impact of pop-up on workplace processes, corporate brand reinvention, new collaboration dynamics, and ROI.
- Knowledge workers pave the way for knowledge networks.
- Like an “ecosystem of ideas,” the facilitation of idea sharing defines a more fluid workspace.
- Through increasingly mainstream open sourcing, collective intelligence across disciplines and industries continues to blur boundaries.
- Socialization will evolve over the next decade as collective intelligence sharpens and the workplace drives innovation.
- Change is the new constant in the workplace.
- People maintain longer careers, which is affecting workplace dynamics.
- As we increasingly view our lives through a holistic lens of health, we’re accounting for life-long learning, multiple jobs and careers, and new skill sets.
- Companies are rethinking the traditional career path, and focus on sustaining long-term relationships with employees; multiple careers—not jobs—may encourage staff to commit to their organization.
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