Workplace

Importantly, this aligns with individuals’ growing expectation that their site of employment provides flexibility and a good work-life balance. These recent global trends show the necessity of shaping workplace sites into attractive ones, therefore allowing actors in public and private sectors to recruit the best workforce. To re-imagine the contemporary workplace is to ask, among other: what is a truly flexible workplace? What is it that we need to change about traditional work arrangements, and what it is that we need to preserve? How do we implement change without disrupting former qualities? And can we embed core values like inclusivity and sustainability into new workspaces?

Flexibility, work-life balance, inclusivity, sustainability: these are values that we want to leave open and flexible for future workers and professional projects; there are things that we want to lock-in and protect far into time. Workplace concepts are designed in ‘resilient’ ways: they build from earlier knowledge and adapt to new realities and demands. They do so by multiplying options for conducting good, efficient work, shaping architectural environments that adjust to varying needs.