Flexible Workspaces

Offices have been opening up in recent years, making space by tearing down private office and cube walls that once (by design) isolated employees. This has held true even in older office buildings and office suites that architects and facility managers are updating with more modern—and modular—configurations. Open spaces are filled with whatever employees need to work effectively, even if that means frequently changing the space and what’s in it. Hotdesking provides the perfect example of why a desk space needs to accommodate whatever (or whomever) comes next.

Part of the flexibility trend involves the need to customize workspaces for groups of users, teams working together and sharing digital media. But as single-user workspaces make way for multi-user areas, what happens to the single-user technology set-ups? They become multi-user, of course. Knowledge zones and high-demand environments, for example, are dynamic and require a unique approach to accommodating technology.