What Future Office Spaces Can Learn From Retail’s Omnichannel Evolution

CEO, Americas at The Instant Group overseeing the company`s expansion throughout the Americas.

While the retail landscape has experienced a dramatic evolution over the past two decades, commercial real estate, particularly office space, has been notoriously slow to adapt — that was, until March. These past eight months have propelled office real estate 10 years into the future. Where retail transformed from brick-and-mortar businesses to online to omnichannel, a similar trend is happening as office spaces are adapting from a core office to a hub-and-spoke workspace experience with dispersed physical spaces.

In retail, even brands that built themselves as e-commerce companies went from “clicks to bricks,” evolving from online-only to include a physical presence. So, too, will our current remote work landscape as it morphs into a full-scope workplace offering with office space experiences that meet employee needs in core business districts, in shared spaces near home, and yes, within homes for remote work, too...
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RSK: Again the Hub and Wheel with many Spokes comes into play here. This concept is very old and has returned dew to the Covid pandemic. It will work...in fact it is working now...