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Insights shaping the role of office

Hear from Natalie Slessor, our Head of Customer and Digital on the future role of workplace in a post-pandemic world.

Workplace of the future
  • 24 Aug 2022
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  • Lendlease Author Better Places

Hear from Natalie Slessor, our Head of Customer and Digital on the future role of workplace in a post-pandemic world. In partnership with Leesman, Lendlease commissioned a report that looks to understand the emerging data around the way we use offices, and how these insights can inform our response to create enticing spaces that suit the needs of today’s employees. 

The value employees and employers place in workplace has shifted, and the onus is on occupiers, owners and investors to actively collaborate to make office spaces places people choose to go to work. With the data showing the younger demographic, coined ‘remote natives’, being the most likely to want to work from home full time, workplaces need to be both equipped to support their younger employees and compel them to choose the office over working from home. 

The data shows that office spaces that are optimised for collaboration, informal social interaction and learning from others will be the most likely to earn the commute of employees. Other important factors include the location of workplaces and how accessible these are by various modes of transport, as well as the placemaking experience – having bars, restaurants, retailers and parks that employees are attracted to near the office. 

Hybrid working is here to stay, and the future is likely to be about getting the balance right between time together, and time apart alongside creating compelling places for people. 

To read the full report, click here

Workplace of the future