Our workplaces have changed for good. How is workplace design answering to these immense changes. Sustainability, agility, co-creation, technology, and wellbeing are some of the responses that designers have had to these changes and were explored in-depth during The Next Space: The Empathetic Workplace hosted by FRAME in partnership with IBA. Explore the key takeaways from the event below.
The pandemic made our places of work incompatible with new ways of working. ‘How can we use very expensive real estate to be resilient for the next shock,’ asked Marco Huber, senior vice president of workplace strategy DACH and CEE at Jones Lang Lasalle. ‘We’ve seen that people want to go to the office to collaborate and socialize, but we also want to experience something at the office beyond the core purpose of being there. We think – and encourage others to think – beyond what your customer is telling you. We must consider health, wellbeing, regenerative spaces, diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. These are so important and gives much more power in the point of innovation and intentionality of what you're doing.’