trends affecting the workspace v2

Trends affecting the workplace

frederic de meyer founder institute for future insights frederic@i4fi.com www.i4fi.com www.fredericdemeyer.com

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core business tasks are increasingly ‘virtualized’…

ICT

Sales

Marketing

R&D

R&D

Manufact

uring

Marketing

Sales

Cust.

Service

ICT

What does it mean for the workspace?

• The workspace will become a meeting center for interaction with the external world; • Fewer fixed workers but more need of space for casual interaction.

Frederic De Meyer

Corporate organizations need to become agile in order to remain competitive…

What does it mean for the workspace?

• Modular interiors that can adapt to project teams; • distribution of rooms for collaboration and focus rooms.

Big companies are opening their office s to anyone in need of work space, or are co-housing with companies from other

industries… soon they’ll be sharing employees as well !

What does it mean for the workspace?

• Design inviting common spaces to increase interaction and ‘serendipity’ innovation; • Modular rooms and ad desks that change according to who happens to be there.

What does it mean for the workspace?

• Modular furniture that adapts to persons easily; • Increased diversity and choice of environment.

The mixture of generations on the work floor is not so much pushing people into two distinctive groups, but is rather pushing for a highly personalized working environment.

A sustainable work environment will become a key differentiator for most companies…

What does it mean for the workspace?

• Cradle-to-cradle furniture; • green walls and roofs • sustainable activities (bees)

In a nutshell…

• workplace becomes a meeting place; • modular surroundings for flexible, project-based teams; • personalization becomes key; • co-working and co-housing amongst different companies, shared spaces and furniture • eventually companies will start sharing employees as well.

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