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All images In 1967-8, Roland Gibbard at Yorke Rosenberg Mardall devised interior partitioning and furnishing systems for Boots’ head ofice in the UK
employers are doubling down on big offices while others move to smaller but better- serviced properties. Property bosses are betting on workers returning to their offices. Some are demanding their presence. From January, Amazon staff were expected in five days a week. JPMorgan Chase, which has just opened its newly built $3bn steel and glass, 1,388ft-high, 60-storey, 2.5 million square-feet global headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in New York, called for a full-time office return from March. The new building, designed by Foster, will eventually be home to 10,000 of the bank’s global staff of 317,000. WPP asked workers to return four days a week. British Land’s staff are also expected to spend four days a week at their desks. Citigroup is spending
Boots
emphasised the scheme had to allow for individual departments to contract, expand or be replaced with a minimum of disturbance
£1bn-plus upgrading its Canary Wharf tower, whereas HSBC is reducing global office space for 40%. Overall, though, offices are still in demand. Management hates seeing empty seats
knowing full well how much this real estate is costing them. A priority is providing flexible and adaptable spaces that are not just a place to work but a way to engage staff, build a better culture and deploy technology to improve employee interactions. Once again the talk is of collaboration zones, tech-enabled meeting rooms and quiet spaces – flexible layouts. As work patterns are always evolving, what is the future for the corporate headquarters? It’s time for creative designers to craft the space in new ways once more.
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