The first in a series of articles about the workplace of the future by Jodi Williams, an associate vice president at CallisonRTKL.
One of the most popular questions we hear is: what is the workplace of the future? We are not futurists, but we are strategists, designers, and workers ourselves. While we cannot definitively say what the workplace of the future will entail, we can, with a reasonable amount of certainty, make predictions for the next five years and offer overall trends and direction for what we expect to see over the upcoming 10 to 25 years (even futurists get it wrong sometimes).
In order to discuss the workplace of the future, it is important to understand that the workplace is bigger than a set of desks and collaborative spaces or the strategies surrounding their use.