Dive Brief:
- While many bosses doubled down on their return-to-office
mandates earlier this year, employers also appear poised to shrink the
individual office workspace they allot to employees who do show up,
according to a recent survey from JLL, a global commercial real estate
and investment management company.
- Companies are aiming to tighten the so-called density metric, or space allotted per person, to an average of 132 square feet per person from
165 square feet per person and to increase the seat-sharing ratios to
1.3 person per seat currently to 1.1 people, according to JLL’s “Global
Occupancy Planning Benchmark Report 2025.” Companies can cut more costs
with 100% “agile seating” or completely unassigned seats, the report
states.
- “Most organizations (78%) report having defined standards for space functions to guide workplace planning, actively working toward smaller, more standardized sizes for office and workstations,” the report states.
Employers — along with their finance executives, real estate and human resource departments — have been faced with many new challenges around work policies and how to budget for and find the right office setup since the pandemic accelerated the popularity of remote and hybrid work more than five years ago.
Where and how people work has been transformed by technology....
RSK: Before we know it, workplaces will be like school rooms with each person having a desk and a locker if we are not careful. I think that is the wrong path to go down even if the majority of workers (67%) are hybrid.
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