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Trends in Workplace Design

After decades of research and post-occupancy evaluations, the impacts that workplace design can have on employee productivity, satisfaction, recruitment, and retention are well-documented, understood, and accepted. Those findings have inspired numerous innovations in workplace design, from more daylighting and shared or collaborative spaces to technology-enabled and -enhanced work areas.

But how has workplace design evolved recently to meet the needs and requirements of a new generation of employees, and to address the ever-changing ways in which people wish to work? Moreover, what’s driving the latest innovations?

Several factors are inspiring designers to “up the ante” in the creation of office designs today. One factor is that CEOs and upper management are electing to sit and work among their employees, in order to eliminate hierarchies and spur more democratic collaborations among departments and between individuals.

Read the three-part series in Building Operating Management:

Part I: Trends in Workplace Design Focus on Productivity, Ocupant Satisfaction

Part II: How Nature and Culture Enhance Happiness, Wellness, Productivity in Office Space

Part III: Wire Management Strategies for a Productive Office Space