Smartphones Ultra-fast internet
Flexible working Social Media
Wearables
Collaboration toolsMobility
Non-Policy Holidays
Technologies and trends like these are vastly changing the traditional office environment.
Employees, especially millennials, require flexible offices that enable them to
work from any location, using whatever devices they feel most comfortable with.These types of employees know that with the advanced audio
and video collaboration tools that are available, a as-good as-being-there communication experience can be delivered,
whether they are in a coffee shop or on the beach.
Bleisure, the portmanteau of business and leisure, recognises how modern employees juggle the work life balance.
Workspaces should be designed to favour collaboration and innovation. Bleisure workplace designers are creating spaces like serendipity corners and chance-encounter corridors to foster interaction, creativity and engagement.
The ‘bleisure’ concept
Foster interaction, creativity and engagement.
Collaborative open spaces and ‘I want to be alone’ nooks are starting to co-exist in freshly-renovated offices where the cubicle walls have finally come down. Many companies are enabling their employees to use off-site co-working spaces that are now available in many hotels and public spaces.
The shape-shifting office
Collaborative open spaces and ‘I want to be alone’ nooks are starting to co-exist in freshly-renovated offices.
Today, almost every electronic device is connected to the Internet of Things. Soon, these devices will have the ability to anticipate our movements, objectives and work patterns, and communicate with each other, making everything we do, whether at home or at work, increasingly seamless.
The age of everyware
Almost every electronic device is connected to the Internet of Things.
Millennials expect the world to behave and think as they do, in ways that are collaborative, connected, and creative, but also local, artisanal, agile, and civically aware.
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Their mobile devices are indispensable to them, and all-wireless offices are being designed to meet their needs.
The mobile generation work ethic
50%eschew the 9-to-5 routine in favour of working late evenings
New offices are being created based on the concept of a micro-village: they break down the barriers between executives and employees by transforming one person offices into collaborative group areas organised according to function rather than seniority. Designs like these offer teams greater opportunities for innovating, sharing, and simply having fun.
The higher-ups come down to earth
Designs like these offer teams greater opportunities for innovating, sharing, and simply having fun.
The Future Laboratory reports that tomorrow’s offices will be a manifestation of new work attitudes, featuring zoned areas in which workers can alternate between business and leisure. The new workspace will look less like an office and more like a multipurpose apartment or leisure park, where workers can eat, sleep, relax, play, and work.
The rise of bleisure hives
The new workspace will look less like an office and more like a multipurpose apartment.
The rise in popularity of co-working spaces for freelancers and start-ups in urban centres attests to the value of sharing ideas with other business categories. They enable workers to cut rental costs and to network with other entrepreneurs. But many executives believe it’s just a matter of time before companies adopt them.
Co-working spaces go corporate
They enable workers to cut rental costs and to network with other entrepreneurs.
“These spaces are melting pots of creativity. They generate a level of synergy that results from the
proximity and collaboration of like-minded people. New relationships
are developed. Ideas are challenged. Problems are solved.”
Beau Britton.
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