How are offices changing?

The pandemic and hybrid working have changed the very idea of the office. This is not only changing the design and purpose of offices, but the look of cities too.
Chapters
00:00 - The office: a shifting concept
00:57 - What do future offices look like?
02:30 - The office as a social destination
03:20 - The rising demand for flexible work
04:06 - How should hybrid employees be managed?
06:01 - Will hybrid work worsen gender inequality?
06:36 - How will flexible working reshape cities?
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Watch our previous video on whether workers should return to the office:
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How to make hybrid work a success: econ.st/3zEExVH
Is hybrid work the worst of both worlds? econ.st/3NZkfLc
Is working from anywhere unrealistic? econ.st/3aXPrM6
Why daydreaming is important for work:
econ.st/3N2dCqc
Will we readjust to the crowded office? econ.st/3NXNZrN

[@Alexa-uk8lj]

The office environment has always. been designed for extroverts and micromanagers which is the issue. Now with a society moving deeper into tech and computer-based work which is normally dominanted by introverts who deal into detail-oriented tasks, commuting to work seems ridiculous if for any reason other than to socialize with co-workers.

[@WPS691]

Office environments are dead - the elitists need to learn that quickly before they become obsolete.

[@Ryan-gp7jd]

Quite a stretch to say either extroverts or introverts dominates detail-oriented tasks. It’s irrelevant how extroverted or introverted you are to be detail-oriented. Totally different characteristics that do not increase or decrease the likelihood of someone being detail-oriented.

[@davidalvd]

@@Ryan-gp7jd partly true. But mostly, extroverts struggle with detail-oriented work. Most detail-oriented people I’ve known are introverts, the more introvert, the more attention to detail.

[@marcdemontbron9657]

Alexa play Stan by Eminem

[@TheCommunicationCoach]

Not really, only in certain positions, They need and design for just as many accountants, bookkeepers, assistants, etc... as anyone else.

[@thesaw9988]

I'm government imployed. It is law now in my country to be able to work form home. I used to spent up to 4 hours in public transport a day. I just show up 1 day a week to show my face now, because my boss likes to see my face once in a while. A shame it took a pandemic for this change. I have been working from home partially before 2020 and have been wondering since why people waste time and money on doing something you could do from home. I don't need to be physically at the office to do my job. Yes I understand some people do. For social interactions. I don't.

[@jasontse8077]

Absolutely - companies that don't offer at least hybrid work will have a lot of difficulty in recruiting especially as the next generation of workers may have never worked 5 days in an office environment before

[@slevinchannel7589]

Best Supplement to this video here would be the Capitalist-Videos of 'Second Thought'

[@xpengfangirl7942]

this looks like that movie, Ellysium

[@davidwilson9976]

A recession will cure this bs of the office being a social space.

[@ericalorraine7943]

Well said! I am also here to learn how to invest after listening to a lady on tv talk about the importance of investing and how she made 7 figure in 3 month, somehow the video taught me nothing and left me even more confused, I'm a newbie and I'm open to ideas on how to invest for retirement

[@davidhudson3001]

@@ericalorraine7943lookup Teresa Jensen White, this is her name online, she's now the real investment prodigy since the crash and have help me recovered my loses

[@poetryaddict1]

I go into to the office one or two days a week. If I am forced to go in more, I will begin exploring other employment opportunities. The world has changed with covid. The office has become obsolete and executives must accept this new reality.

[@lilsabin]

I am still flabbergasted at how , a lot of people dont get it (CEO)... I dont want to commute , I dont want to be stuck in a cubicle for 8 hours , I dont want to hear my colleagues tell the same story every day ... Commuting means i have to wake up 2-3-4 hours before my shift start , working from home allow me to change the space from time to time ( bedroom , living room , kitchen , balcony , etc) , and I dont necessarily want to know about my colleagues life , i have my own personal shiet to deal with :)

[@anastasiab9506]

exactly, i want to work in peace and quiet instead of constantly listening to co-workers laughing, talking loudly on the phone or eating.

[@genepires9394]

What you don’t get is that you’ll most definitely make LESS

[@socialistsolidarity4934]

The CEOs get! But, if you work from home they can't control and dictate to you.

[@lilsabin]

@@socialistsolidarity4934 why do they need to control and dictate me , when i am still bringing them money ?

[@lilsabin]

@@genepires9394 make less what ?

[@carmenthomson6011]

I have worked from home over 10 years, which is most of my working life. I don’t see work as work, it is part of my life. I think if you enjoy your work you never rally switch off and you don’t really want to. I am there for my family and I am there for work. It is a win win.

[@AnirudhPsychPixel]

If people think it's business as usual post pandemic, they will pay a heavy price in mid and long term. Attrition rates will keep climbing until remote/hybrid work culture is made the norm and a choice.

[@adammorra3813]

Why are gen z doing this

[@user-wt2ip3bo3t]

I don't understand the reasoning for why hybrid work will be detrimental to working moms. Wouldn't this make it much easier to balance work and childcare, especially when the partner also works under a hybrid model? It should be even more beneficial for single moms because they can save time commuting and are more flexible picking up their kids from kindergarten/school etc.

[@DamianBill]

They won't have peace of mind to work from home with their kids around.

[@nerdmommy7114]

Because work life balance is a myth. If a mom is at home, she is expected (or be felt guilty) to focus on childcare, whether she is working or not. It is not easy to balance taking care of kids and working at the same time. The only times a mom has free time to work is when the kids are busy playing (which might only last for 10 minutes), kids are sleeping, kids are being taken care of by someone else, or if kids are at school or somewhere not at home. Home is just very distracting. This is the reason why moms, and likely most working parents, use tablets/ipads as "babysitters". And parents who allow that are stigmatized. There is a lot more going on when it comes to working moms that work at home.

[@ThatDogBarkz]

As a single father of two...working from home 3 days a week means my children are not "latchkey kids", spending hours between teachers, childminders/babysitters etc. They're happier, i'm happier and that's THE END OF IT. Anyone who is arguing that hybrid working is detrimental to parents or their children has an ULTERIOR MOTIVE and should, with respect, F*CK OFF (tuan, nerdy mom) 🙄💩

[@ivordia3692]

Discriminatory attitudes could get worse because employers may assume moms working at home will pay more attention to their children instead of works

[@naturalbae]

The only thing that would make it difficult for me is going into the office. I prefer full time work from home

[@franko1904]

Hybrid working not only requires a high degree of trust. Competency and discipline are crucial too!

[@fuckooo]

Especially from redundant management who can no longer pester their employees as easily.

[@ryanfitzalan8634]

I called this when the pandemic first broke out and we all went home. But i took it to another level. i think that the demand to work in offices not even associated with your company will become a trend. It will be a persons choice if they WFH or WH (work hybrid), and many young single people will pay membership to local office spaces with cool trendy concepts, like a café that has all the office amenities and is filled with other diverse young professionals from different fields. I think about how limited my social circle has gotten in my thirties, and how most people i work with are older and the office is far away. wouldn't it be nice if my close buddy who also works from home down the street from me, could go to the same office space once or twice a week and grab lunch together at a local place in our urban neighborhood? Also i think working vacations will become an industry to itself, with Airbnb and other services capitalizing on the notion of designing rentals for the WFH traveler or a group of WFH travelers. It may seem goofy, but if i can finish up my job and close my computer at the end of the day and go see a concert in a new city, or grab local food in a new country, or get some afternoon sunshine on a beach and a dip in the ocean for a long weekend before going back to somewhere north and cold, why not? i still get vacation time besides that anyways. Itsa great new evolution im excited to live through, if the global economy doesnt collapse that is....

[@John-dw6jb]

The problem with this idea surrounds trade secrets, conflicts of interest, sensitive information, etc. There's no way a regulator at the SEC is going to be allowed to work next to an investment analyst at Goldman Sachs, in a shared office space.

[@ryanfitzalan8634]

@@John-dw6jb agreed. those sorts of workers will probably have a difficult time gaining flexibility about their work from home situations, i assume that's already an issue for some. But surprisingly i know some people in sensitive government positions, who had their entire office cleared out and the building sold and the at home environment made permanent, because it saved big bucks to not have a building. regardless, of how anyone feels about WFH, its an employees marketplace and so long as it stays that way workers can make demands. Down the road legal challenges will come about from various things happening and some sort of policy forward will result.

[@polishtheday]

That makes work sound so much more appealing. The social aspect, or lack of it as you point out, can be overcome by working with friends. I was only able to do this a few times while working on a gig project on weekends and during my vacation time and it was mostly online but what a eye opener that was. We did the majority of our work from our home offices but were in constant contact by email and phone. This was the late 1990s so texting wasn’t as viable. We met in person daily for coffee or dinner - it helped that most of us lived in the same neighbourhood - to discuss the project, resolve problems and so on. I could focus so much better and work longer hours without getting tired. Sometimes it didn’t seem like work at all because of the social aspect. What’s more it seemed to work well for both the extroverts and introverts among us.

[@jmoz]

Gonna need some proof you called it, bossman.

[@dalegrant9282]

You are absolutely right, I currently travel from AirBnB to AirBnB, 1 week at a time as a software engineer, and I plan to do it abroad soon, go from city to city! See the world.

[@polishtheday]

I wish these changes had happened before I retired. I was always happier during the times when I could work at home. The prime reason I retired early was because of the commute and mine wasn’t even that bad. Why is the percentage of people wanting hybrid work lower for Europe and highest in the U.S.? Is it because European public transit is better? Is it density? Living closer to work? Or is it cultural?

[@JH-gf4cm]

Sorry to hear you couldn’t benefit from it. I’ve been hybrid working for almost a decade and it has been such a great transition for my career. My productivity was always highest when working from home and it made me more motivated to make best use of my time in the office. The pandemic changed that - very different dynamic when everyone was working from home - but I think overall hybrid working is inevitable and superior. I was very surprised to see Europe with a lower rate than other regions- if anything I would expect it to be the highest. I wonder what the age range is. One thing to consider is the impact on younger workers - I think they could be disproportionately negatively impacted by remote working unless companies enact well structured policies to balance in person with remote work. We still need mentoring and I think that’s much easier to provide in person

[@andersonmark5765]

I can guess the reason. It may have to do with the fact that Americans work much longer hours than Europeans (the average American works 500 hours more per year than the average European.) I therefore assume that we American would benefit more by working remotely and having less commuting time.

[@genxx2724]

Europeans have a shorter workday, more vacation days, better and cheaper childcare, and perhaps less-obnoxious colleagues.

[@jon6309]

I like working from home! My supervisor is currently flexible with the hybrid option and I try to come in once a week! I may skip a week or two! Or come in twice a week depending on my mood!

[@mathewvanostin7118]

Me i would never come unless there is reasons where i absolutly need be there like my home wifi isnt working, i lost my laptop, or what ever reasons 😂

[@glow1815]

The company I work for did went hybrid for a month it was too challenging for the company to decide who qualify base of employees performances, attendance etc they decided to go work at home permanently. 100% of us work from home. I started WFH since the day I was hired never seen what our company looks like.

[@Robertgriffinne]

My greatest concern is how to recover from all these economic and global troubles and stay afloat especially with the political power tussle going on in the US.

[@marianparker7502]

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[@tradekings5433]

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[@Robertgriffinne]

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[@masteryoda9044]

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[@OpEditorial]

It boils down to investment and liability, an office building that sits empty costs the companies that own them property taxes and maitenance (they're also an eyesore) so when the world got a 2 year trial run of what a waste of time and energy a commute to and from a place full of people you're at best not exactly happy to be around most of the time. They got worker friendly fast.

[@Munchausenification]

I hate this so much. I like structure and clear lines between what is work and what is leisure. There is no way i can "relax" in a bar at work, its just fluff that does nothing for me.

[@davidfofana1669]

Exactly my view. This is just a bunch of new-age religious bullcrap forced on us. Some industries don’t have the luxury of having these combined work and fun system. So it’s a scam

[@kek209]

Speak for yourself. I save 3 hours of my day not having to get ready in the morning and driving.

[@Munchausenification]

@@kek209 I am speaking for myself. As long i can get kept out of blending work with my freetime im fine others can if they want to.

[@kek209]

@@Munchausenification oh okay. Carry on then

[@callumreed398]

Cool story

[@person-yu8cu]

I don't have hybrid working schedule. I work from home remotely. The reason is simple. If my employer says I have to come risk get a fatal illness, then I quit and go work somewhere that allows arbitrary remote. If I can't find that right away, I stay unemployed for a bit and live off my savings. I will also go the the union, and organize other workers so that we collectively put our foot down at the greedy extermination. This way, the workers have more power over the employer, allowing them to improve their working conditions, as well as strengthen the power of the working class over the capitalist class as a whole, because the latter is to be removed in order to advance society forward.

[@JasmineTea127]

I actually like cubicles over open floor planned offices. It’s a private space to focus!!

[@YasinNabi]

A wonderful channel and great contents, I enjoyed watching most of your videos, thanks for sharing.! .,

[@kokuyocamlin07]

Still people will always hate Office.

[@finanzferdinand9874]

The office is toxic. For me WFH has allowed me to escape office politics and the toxicity that comes with it

[@lilie9006]

@@finanzferdinand9874 100% so true!!!

[@4everfatjoe]

I know this is an unpopular opinion but I like going and working in office. Maybe it's because I work at a chill company and my office is 10min bike ride away from my home but I like the separation of work space, where I am productive, and home space, where I mess around and relax. I even go to office in my free time to work on my personal projects. But I understand people that have a very long or unpleasant commute or people with children. I'd want to work from home more in that case too. Obviously, hybrid and freedom of choice is the way to go and I am glad the offices and office culture is changing.

[@anastasiab9506]

this is why it should be a choice. Work from home or come to the office- up to you.

[@ddiimmaa123]

@@anastasiab9506 Favourtism is inevitable with this model. Managers like people that show passion, and investing the effort to commute and be in office when it's not necessary is going to damage those that don't, even though they don't have to. I've seen this happen first hand.

[@ansunair3204]

I think while hybrid work may pose a risk to increase the gap of discrimination against working mothers, it may also potentially bring more working mothers to the workstream, who may have left working due to household responsibility, but now can work from home as well as dedicate time to home and childcare

[@cc-dtv]

yep, know moms who are 100% wfh and have no issues balancing responsibilities, especially if hubby is wfh too then it's ez

[@auaiao9]

Just how much work will those moms do while dedicating time to home and childcare?

[@cc-dtv]

@@auaiao9 i think you are underestimating the variance of people's living situations. for example: grandma lives with either of her kids, also income enables a lot.

[@auaiao9]

@@cc-dtv Which goes back to my question of just how much work will those moms do or get done while dedicating time to home and childcare? If there's no grandma living there and dad is elsewhere, how much time in the day will be spent on work?

[@neilsjmcmahon]

Being in the same house as your children does not mean you are "looking after them". It means they are proximally abandoned which may even be worse than outsourcing their care to imported maternal care in the local creche

[@bakerkawesa]

Nothing beats working from home.

[@no_more_spamplease5121]

Many things do beat it. For instance, living off a passive income.

[@jessedameron7985]

Wow. Very informative and very well-done video.

[@Christiane069]

So! Basically going back to what a city is to be. Like London, Paris, Berlin, Rome,etc...Mixes use.

[@jimmyliu4614]

Hopefully the implementation of “15-minute” or even “1-minute” city will give workers more time to rest, to be with family and friends, rather than to work more hours.

[@polishtheday]

I live in a fifteen minute city within a larger city and see people who work from home walk their kids to school and pick them up several times a day. The kids get to go home for lunch. They have unstructured play outside. Some of the alleys have been blocked off and turned into playgrounds with furniture repurposed or built by the parents with the help of the kids. Many have murals painted on garage doors. One even has street signs with the names of the kids who live there. Every time I walk down it I wonder if the signs will still be there when the kids grow up and move away.

[@larsl.christensen6560]

Hopefully that is their choice, and not company policy.

[@cornishpasty4344]

The office was already becoming obsolete prior to Covid. Since the start of my career... 15 years ago... I have worked with individuals across the country and the world. We've always connected and collaborated online and my in-office work has simply been for me to show my face. Everything I do today is on the cloud. My vendors are in different cities. The tools HQ are in different cities! At my current role, I have coworkers who are in their late 50s/early 60s who are refusing to adapt and change. They act as if this is a new thing... it is not and has been happening for a couple of decades now. Time to progress or get left behind. The days I go into the office are my least productive due to interruptions from colleagues who just want to stand in my doorway and gab.

[@luvjiae]

Totally agree that trust is crucial for the hybrid working environment to work!

[@baaart333k]

I love the economists videos! Please don’t stop!

[@adammorra3813]

I wont stop baby

[@Callummullans]

🤩🤩🤩 I felt like we were being slowly devalued across all industries but this seems like a major improvement.

[@HS2ND]

At the end what matters is productivity..office design is useful if it contributes to that end otherwise it’s a distraction and a cost add-on.

[@kevindonjuan1996]

Watching this on my break while I am working remote.

[@christiea772]

I like going to the office (single woman with no family and no friends) but like to have the option not to go in case I feel too tired or slightly sick.

[@pedrocaetano5117]

Great piece of content

[@lillianmurphy3937]

The office is now in direct competition with the home. And often times, WOH wins.

[@bucktownxxx]

Yes but cubicles give people privacy. no one wants to sit right next to someone all day, ive been there and its extremely uncomfortable.

[@BsktImp]

Can't help wondering why, for all these supposedly leading-edge organisations stuffed full of highly remunerated forward-thinking leaders and managers, it took an external stressor to precipitate reactionary changes to working practices. Pre-pandemic, 'dress-down Friday' was seen as radical for your standard corporate organism, and the reality of requesting 'flexible working' a bureaucratic minefield with reactionary pushback from line managers and their lieutenants (HR).

[@eldromedario3315]

the indomitable deficiencies and ineptitudes of society.......

[@paulinesz15]

short video yet interesting ,can we see a lot more videos like this?❤🥰

[@dongilpark2701]

It's impressive that this video uses bgm in a variety. The editing matches the music. Absolutely Refined style!

[@liamscott7561]

I will never again accept a job that requires me to come in and work in an office.... Working from home offers a better work/life balance and it is also better for my mental health. The only issue is, my employer doesn't really notice how my workload has increased in the last 6-12 months so I predict asking for a raise will lead to an interesting conversation...

[@ThatDogBarkz]

Amen 😇

[@adammorra3813]

You will come up and you will like it. The beatings will continue until morale improves.

[@johnl.7754]

Wonder if this will increase outsourcing and offshoring jobs. Also will younger generations still be able to learn as much without the top employees in the office.

[@ThatDogBarkz]

In short...yes. Young folk, newbies and the less outgoing are often marginalized by office politics and those who think they rule the space. Many have reported feeling less inhibited and are able to learn and contribute more under the new circumstances. Less space for the eternally arrogant to show off and do the MOST 🙄🙂

[@sashamellon822]

Depends, on your company. And role.

[@UXtatic]

Yes.

[@mattanderson6672]

Thank you

[@the_real_littlepinkhousefly]

We're not "post-pandemic" yet. (I'm not even sure we're "getting there.") People just WANT it to be "post-pandemic" so we're calling this era that. COVID is still very much around, not yet declared endemic, so until that happens, we're still technically IN the pandemic. But it is, of course, important for companies to be looking ahead to how they want to design their offices, because truly, the majority of people who CAN work from home prefer to keep doing so if they can, and, like this video says, going in for the face-to-face interactions and the more "off-the-cuff" idea generation that can engender.

[@bigjohn1253]

I think that the monkey pox is the new pandemic

[@dyoungberry]

If some of us need to die to maintain record profits, that’s a risk the CEO’s are willing to make.

[@anilachar323]

Looks more like the high end offices of the service industries. IT, startups, etc. What about the offices that are linked, embedded with the companies of manufacturing, distribution?

[@gideonoyewole5371]

Okayed. Understands entrepreneurship and a hybrid data hygienic personnel.

[@drwho9437]

There is all this talk about hybrid and remote work because the people who talk for a living do pure office work where they work at a desk, but that excludes: retail, all manufacturing, most scientific/lab jobs, artist/craft jobs, creative jobs like photography or movie editors, etc. Yes journalists can work from home. If you just need a personal computer to do your work you can work from anywhere. However longer term those jobs will just be globalized. If you can have workers productive on a pure remote basis then you can locate them anywhere. It might be wise to locate them where you have a footprint but it might be wiser to minimize costs. This has done a long transition for telework for those who can and want to all at once rather than slowly. It will decrease use of commercial property for a while but just like people came back to travel the virtues of being in person are going to come back too. People didn't sent business travelers across the world to meet face to face to close major deals for fun. Personal human relationships tend to be formed in person. That has a real effect on teaming and business also. So there will of course be a lot more remote work but there will still be a lot of office and in person work that returns. Those in these comments that say employers that don't allow this are myopic from a tight labor market where workers have choice. Once there is high unemployment, employers that want workers back in the office will get them and establish any norms they want again.

[@Feynman981]

Please not. Just please stop making fancy, impractical offices and just pay me more money!

[@YourBurpiness]

Agree

[@heristyono4755]

as a casual badminton player, the apartement at 9:38 is where I would wanna live in.

[@supa0421]

7:18 I'm sorry but this place is located in Songdo, Incheon in Korea, not Singapore...

[@umairm.5662]

Well I live in a conservative country, had a job where most people think outdated. But I always had this view of offices - it's not the place where you had to go, but rather a place where you want to go. One of the best post pandemic effect is now companies want talented people and not the other way, Americans left their jobs. I think in last century workers union played its role, and now your economy will significantly relish because of this.

[@thesaw9988]

Umair: I don't know what country you live in. The big leave in the US has a lot of other reasons and they are not the best payed jobs. Unions play a large role, especially in Europe. And they do understand the need of workers wanting to work at home. BTW it's legal now in my country. Who's economy will will relish now?

[@Mich6961]

Even though I like the idea of hybrid working and having more integrated city planning, I think one of the other issues of it is that paired with the soaring energy bills, say if it's winter: If you work in an office, you don't have to have the heating on while you are away, but if people are going to be home more that means you will have to pay more utility bills just by being at home.

[@polishtheday]

Where I live you have to keep the heat on to keep water pipes from freezing. Maybe there are other people at home or you live in an apartment building where the temperature isn’t within your control. There’s also the cost of warming up the car - not necessary but many do it for convenience - and driving to work instead of taking public transit because you’d be miserable waiting for the bus. That office building needs to be heated too.

[@alexederwarren7336]

As the economic crisis keep rising, one needs to have different streams of income, a well detailed diversified investment portfolio in the financial markets is needed to survive, as well as secure a profitable investment future,

[@josephinekristina4827]

Not really below your means, but have a profitable investment.

[@terrisewell4729]

For sure, you're right,

[@terrisewell4729]

Starting early is the best way of getting ahead to build wealth, investing remains a priority. I learnt from my last year's experience, i am able to build a suitable life because I invested early ahead this time.

[@mikekeppar8093]

I urge everyone to start somewhere now no matter how small, this is literally the time for that, forget material things, don't get tempted,i became more better the moment i realized this.

[@joycegreat259]

The year 2021 has been a difficult year to invest and it's really affecting business individuals.

[@GRID788]

Remote work is half a chance half a challenge. Concerning postive aspects, the main one is time spent in public transportation. Salaries can allocate this time to other activities, like enjoying moments with family, especially in the morning. Also, this way of working help to increase productivity. Indeed, studies show that time spending doing ancilliary activities is much more important at the office than at home. Concerning negative aspects, loneliness is definitely a major feature. It can lead to depression for isolated individuals. Working at home could be detrimental for effectiveness because workers are subjected to forgetfulness. It is undeniable that this working style is included in workers habits nowadays. It is even a prerequisite in job searches. Some people will give priority to working environment than the salary.

[@RichardBreed]

the economist, rocks.

[@songsong6748]

The world never remained the same. just embrace the change and take full advantage of it. someone would soon change their carrier path on the way to build own business. change creates opportunities and opportunists . business will have to keep up the changes to offer better benefits. otherwise, why you. business is essentially just a group of people creating ,capturing and sharing values.

[@felixthecat2786]

You can encourage people to go back to the office by giving them affordable housing in the city that they work in. It's really that simple.

[@adrianafamilymember6427]

Pls daycare but most people don't want kids because of modern society.

[@nrclever8167]

True but I may as well employ somone in a v remoted area

[@Agent77X]

Back to the office now! Remote workers are give a choice to go back to their office or find another job!😊 The employers are smart to 1st offer 3 days in the office to start and move to 5 days now!😊

[@alaaelddin5374]

Its about new generation that going for more digitalisation and getting more efficiency from the work design and filling the gap to reconnect and being socialised .

[@anandhihariharan1780]

TBH there were office spaces like this that existed pre-pandemic. This isn’t a new concept in any means. Also, it’s not so much about the office space, but other factors like commute time to work, finding the right work-life balance when you spend so much time at work which are making employees prefer permanent WFH. Office space with the best facilities are not the motivators anymore.

[@StuartLoria]

Remote working means measuring progress better not just head counting. Offices are a huge business for building owners and for service providers, moving away from the office is going to be opposed by them. In a post-pandemic, the office just makes sense to socialize and for strategy, office day is way less productive than the rest of days.

[@edmundprice5276]

If i had a big office, I would give private offices as a perk to higher ranking people and then have a big conference hall where all the employees can meet, most of the working would be done at home, but those with private offices would be given them on a use them or loose them basis

[@JJs_playground]

I don't even know why bother with hybrid. If you're not essential for being in the office why have all the office space and realestate?

[@alexchu8330]

Weekend Warm-Up music?

[@SoirEkim]

This hybrid working environment where offices are meshed with home sites looks like a preparation for working in space with compact-station-living and on extraterrestrial bases such as the moon and Mars, etc. I like it and enjoy working from home. Am soon to be transferred to a new position within the same company but as a hybrid system of two days in and three at home. If only there was a mini office site closer to home…

[@jackieboyle9002]

Amazing how many new normals were all ready to go But just needed a "pandemic" to kick them all off

[@martineyles]

You had a 2 minute unskippable advert before the video.

[@ednanayub]

All tech and possibilities in officing could be merged to get well sync safe and synergic system of working where data and processes derive through AI the future needs.

[@ishanarora5764]

True

[@whitepod]

Try working for a co which allows work from home but expects you to turn on zoom all day long, cam and mic included. 🙄

[@hikodzu]

Thanks covid 😘 I love working at home

[@dannybourne_]

FINALLY CHANGE !

[@unhash631]

What a bunch of gimmick. This sounds exactly how open offices were advertised in the past.

[@jesuslove2139]

For remote working to be the next norm, cities need to provide better living places. You can’t be productive in a shared flat’s narrow room which you share with a roommate you barely know.

[@maywalker997]

If companies heat offices and make them nicer environments, a lot of people who can commute by foot or bicycle may be forced to come into the office this Winter as rising heating costs make staying at home miserably cold.

[@terencewinters2154]

They will be hot cotting . Your desk will be yours Monday Wednesday Friday . Tuesday Thursday Saturday it will be someone else's. If they can shift commercial real estate costs to workers they will. And the home will be filled with more work angst and anomie. Because fewer people will actually bond and face time. The tech interface means more impersonal behavior by multinationals and nationals . The ice cube effect will set in and the cost cutting factor and population boom will drive it. But you may not drive so much.

[@cryptout]

Managementspeak is Newspeak

[@TheCommunicationCoach]

Much more telecommuting as it should be.

[@pt8077]

I’ve worked in places described here in the early 2000’s. “Redefined” ?

[@tanujSE]

I don't know what keeps contracts alive and movin While arm warehouses fill as quick as the cell(RATM)

[@yonayehezkel3150]

We need to understand that being at the top of the pyramid of creation means that everything we do trickles down the structure, from top to bottom. When it reaches the bottom, the inanimate level of reality, from which everything grows, it changes it. If we ooze ill-will, it creates negative changes throughout the system, which manifest in increasingly extreme climatic and geological events. In other words, when human relationships go out of balance, everything goes out of balance. When our relations become extreme, everything becomes extreme; when we become violent, everything becomes violent. Each summer, the ramifications of the linkage between our relations and our world become more extreme, until we acknowledge that everything that exists, exists in a connected, hierarchical system and that whoever is at the top determines the state of the rest of the system. It is not as if previously, we were better people than we are today. It is simply that there were fewer people, and therefore fewer elements that exude ill will. Also, relationships between people in the past were less toxic than they are today. While there are fewer wars today than ever, the levels of suspicion and alienation between people are skyrocketing, to the point where people can no longer trust their own family members. As a result, wars between countries are rarer than ever, but divorce rates, domestic violence, and violence in the community, are at an all-time high. Even the internet, which we invented purportedly in order to connect people, is being used to abuse, deceive, and exploit people. The world-wide-web proves that everything we create, we use against others. When there is such a negative element in a system, and that element is at the top of the system, how can the entire system not go awry? Therefore, if we want the weather to cool, the sea-level to drop, and the storms to subside, we must cool the fire and calm the storms between us. Mutual concern, mutual responsibility, or at least the knowledge that we are dependent on each other, are necessary in order to restore balance in our world at all levels, from the ground we walk on to the hatred in our hearts.

[@phillyfan-182]

I like working in the office

[@krazykirl1129]

I wonder if these increased office spaces could free up more buildings for homes

[@gcdhvf4896]

So ghost towers will be the future of lost cities doing business online. In fact this is the best option for families who would benefit from working from home vs family time and for young entrepreneurs to span out to their full potential

[@Pyxhel]

2:09 What is that city ?

[@kokuyocamlin07]

South Korea

[@lrs4602]

The office is expensive for businesses and employees Biz=OverheadEmployees=Transporation, Clothing, Time, Social Obbligations

[@noazucar519]

A hybrid model probably won’t benefit those whom are just starting out on their careers. They are likely living with parents or a roommate and are looking to learn from more seasoned colleagues. So they’d want to go in the office for space to work, to network, build skills, etc, but it’d be a detriment to them if no one is really there on Monday or Friday to talk things out with 😅

[@AcesizOfficial]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@karlad4082]

You should specify the type of offices. These are tech, advertising or design offices 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@kngjoea3743]

Younger workers are not going to waste their time driving two hours a day to sit in a box for 8-12 hours.

[@neonnsteel]

Am I the only madman that wishes the Economist would post the music they used in their vids in the description?

[@stephenkearny1504]

Working from home saves most folks hours in their day from having to commute. Not only this, but the savings in wear-n-tear, gasoline expenses, and opportunity costs are a huge reason why we shouldnt return to the old 40 hour work week (ie 60 hour work week with time commuting) . We have a real opportunity here to better our lives and our work-life balance that companies claim they are so concerned about. And we have a great opportunity to fix some of the causes of climate change by drastically reducing the fuel consumption of having so many folks drive to/from work everyday! The corporate real estate lobby and proponents of the 20th Century economic model would have us believe that working from the office is better - is best. I call BS.

[@age_of_reason]

This is called society resting on its laurels. Trying to redesign workplace environment as if it's going to increase productivity in double-digit figures is madness. This kind of mentality is what makes artificial (fake) productivity possible where company CEOs are able raise billions of dollars for a company that has yet to turn a profit solely by using corporate newspeak and social media to pump their yet-to-be products/services. This trend started in Silicon Valley and it is very scary to see it spreading across the globe. Unemployment in the US is 3.9% while inflation is 9.1% (really 15-20%), housing is unaffordable, debt levels are at all-time highs and at a point of no return. How can this be if so many people are employed? The answer lies in the previous statement. Fake productivity spurred on by helicopter money. All that money is supporting unprofitable companies (40% of S&P companies have negative earnings). Fake fortunes (YT, Instagram, do-nothing celebrities making millions), etc. etc. You can't sustain an steroid economy forever. Every day the bucket go to the well. One day the bottom will fall out.

[@archangeldeltius1511]

My only concern really with this is the psychological impact that working from home can have. What I mean is the work-life balance may start blending if people are not careful because they work where they live.

[@glp912]

Or perhaps you can stop worrying about people’s work life balance and start worrying about yours lol. You’re just projecting that people will have problems with it. I for one have had been able to build that most balanced lifestyle I’ve had ever since I’ve started working from home.

[@archangeldeltius1511]

@@glp912 Mine balance is fine, I'm just contributing to the conversation something that I rarely see people consider. I'm not projecting anything.

[@shekharpaul966]

Does office work only confined to White collars only.... What about blue collar! The very idea of office, has million types, just for example, the car servicing company employed 15 blue collared and 3 white collard , is also formed an office space . Do you think they will come to the office for social gathering in future 😆😆

[@polishtheday]

Office work is white collar by definition although offices do exist on typical blue collar sites like construction and manufacturing. Social gatherings will always be important. But they might not happen at the office.

[@skullandbones1832]

❤️

[@danjohnston9037]

Translation: Office Furniture Suppliers Make Out 💸

[@emanuelacomerio5334]

vi mando un video dalla Svizzera per spiegarvi come funziona per me l'economia. l'economia funziona solo debellata con l'espulsione dei qua qua qua. un esempio di economia limitatamente svizzero, ovviamente.

[@socialistsolidarity4934]

That's why having democracy at work is essential, where workers can decide how to work. So, those who want to work from home should be able to and those who want to go to the office can.

[@Westcork-ul1ww]

Collaborative office space is basically "boiler room chic". Employees have no ability to personalize their space. There is no privacy and it's difficult to concentrate. Some employees, the ones that are sociable and extroverted, love this format. But introverts are disappointed and leaving in droves.

[@mes1378]

Its not a matter of trust as it it easy to measure exactly what an employee has produced/done during a day or a week. It a matter of old fashoned and absurd urge to control every step of Your employee. Thats the problem. Employers must accept We now live under a new order. To be able to attract the best You need to abandon 5 days a week in office rules.