From me-space to we-space: welcome to the office of the future

By David Blackman2021-05-07T05:00:00

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If we are going to work collectively again, the places in which we do so will have to adapt. Here are some of the workplace solutions planners and consultants are offering up

Stewart Ward noticed something unusual the other week. “I came into work in Moorgate and there was a traffic jam.” The managing director of Mace’s interiors arm smiles as he remembers what such things used to look like.

Since last month, London has looked busier. For months, the only people wandering around the Square Mile were the builders working on the office blocks that overnight seemed like relics from a bygone age. “Who’s going to fill them?” was a not uncommon question.

But things are slowly changing and pessimism is giving way to hope. “This last lockdown has made people want to go back into office,” adds Morgan Sindall chief executive John Morgan.

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