Why We Go to the Office Now
CEOs keep insisting that some of the best reasons to come back to the office are to reconnect with colleagues, meet in person again and have the kind of spontaneous interaction that boosts creativity,?but?new research?finds that many returning employees just want to get their work done.
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“That's not what I expected,” said?Janet Pogue McLaurin, the global director of workplace research at the architecture and design firm Gensler.
That also surprised me, yet?“to focus on my work” was the answer ranked first with the majority of the 14,000 office workers Gensler surveyed in?Canada,?the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the UAE?and the US. Yes, there were?exceptions — office workers?in Mexico said the main reason to return to the office was for scheduled, in-person meetings with their teams while in the UK and Germany it was to sit with their team.
Still, the overarching results help explain?why you may have noticed more space?dedicated to concentration and privacy, such as phone booths or individual conferences rooms,?at your office or those you’ve visited recently.
If you find yourself craving such spaces currently lacking in your workplace, chances are they may be coming in the future.?While workers are coming back to the office —?Gensler found that respondents said they need to be in the office 63% of the week to maximize productivity?—?they miss?some aspects of?working from home that they came to appreciate during the pandemic. The quiet and solitude to focus on the task at hand appears to be?one of them.
The design features people want are?quiet, technology-free zones and "libraries" as well as places to?restore and connect?like break rooms, outdoor and nap spaces, work cafes and fitness?rooms, the survey showed.
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1 年The issue of *where* we work from is just one of the many aspects of productivity and, frankly, obscures the more important issue of 1) how to define, manage and execute our work, and 2) level of communication among peers in collaborative situations and between a manager and the employees where such relationships are important. That should be our focus. Good management and a productive, well-functioning work-culture can accommodate many different office-remote work situations, including all-office and all-remote.