直到三年前, 远程工作, 居家办公, the 15-minute city and other similar concepts were still something vaguely familiar, with few companies looking at “work from anywhere” as a valid concept.
One pandemic later, mentalities about the way we work and where we work from have changed. This change isn’t the exclusive result of the health crisis we’ve been through.
The last couple of years also brought an avalanche of other things: the great resignation and the quiet quitting movement, an increased interest in how our buildings and our work impacts the environment, emerging technologies that influence our professional activity and workspaces and even a potential new financial crisis.
在这个有趣的全球动态背景下, 在我们跨入新年之际, we invite you to think about how work and offices will evolve and what new trends we might expect.
There are a few interesting concepts to take into consideration in 2023:
混合工作才是正道
办事处继续存在, 但它们的作用正在发展, 主要关注人们的社会需求. The pandemic emphasised employees’ capability to work remotely and the data stands by this: a 2022年研究显示 that 75% of workers globally believe that 远程工作 is the new normal, while 97% of employees want their work to be at least partially remote in the future.
So we are going to see people mixing ‘from the office’ and ‘from anywhere’ work styles. 此外, satellite offices could meet the need of working from a more official space, 但离他们的家更近. Different generations have different 需要: those of a more flexible mindset might have moved to a rural area or an exotic location, nest-builders prefer to be at home and not everyone is productive at the same time of day, 尤其是在不同的时区. 在所有情况下，灵活性仍然是关键.
办公空间, 使用时, 继续不仅仅是工作的空间, 但这是一个培养人际关系和沟通的地方. 许多人已经在家里设置了一个专业的办公桌, 但考虑到各方利益, 需要, 工作, 个人生活细节, 一个专门的户外工作空间有它的好处. This means that companies need to adapt and integrate employees’ new preferences in their business strategy and design.
办公室比以往任何时候都更加注重ESG
The last couple of years also brought ESG into the attention of the real estate industry - developers and tenants included.
如果我们考虑到建筑部门占 38% of CO2 emissions, the way offices are built becomes significantly more critical. This might lead to multiple reconversion of spaces or refurbishments, to more sustainable materials being used in the building processes, as well as to integrating new technologies that measure and contribute to improving the industry’s impact over the environment.
Tenants have also become more aware of the impact of their spaces - especially their homes, 但我们相信，这种关注也将转移到他们的办公室.
技术起着至关重要的作用
不断发展的proptech产业 预测 价值86美元.到2032年将达到50亿, will become more and more intertwined with the real estate one to the point we won’t imagine offices without tech. 我们相信，2023年不仅会带来新技术, but a sedimentation of already accumulated knowledge after 2 years of experiments.
office开发者和用户的好处包括:
- offering an improved experience to tenants through apps and devices that personalise, 自动化和优化人们进出空间的旅程
- tracking resources used for a more sustainable approach (the ESG goals mentioned above)
- 自动化手工流程, mainly for landlords and developers who can therefore spend much more time on tasks that bring high value
- reducing carbon footprint - virtual tours and 3D digital twins in particular can help here, by cutting down printed materials and unnecessary travel and driving data-based decisions
- creating more efficient workflows, fit for the hybrid style of working
虚拟办公室与实体办公室相遇
我们还遇到了一个有趣的提议:虚拟办公室. After having used all types of virtual meeting tools and apps while isolated in our homes, the next step could be our 'work avatars' getting together in a virtual office like the one created by Meta (Horizon 工作rooms). Other companies take the streaming game to a new level - Microsoft adds mixed reality features to its Microsoft Teams platform through 网.
虚拟世界及其用法仍在争论中. 什么是清楚的, regardless of how many tools we use or how good and efficient they are, is that people will continue to need to interact personally with each other. Remote work comes with many benefits - for the employers as well, 因为他们可以接触到更广泛的人才库, 但是没有什么可以取代直接的交流.
This year is building on the previous ones' trends and it will be interesting to see where the development of new technologies for real estate is going and how adoption will evolve. The industry is already on its path to digital transformation and, while finding the right tools will take experimentation and time, both owners and occupiers expect nothing less than having their 需要 met by exceptional technology solutions.
