Everyone is asking for the office of the future although a better question may be about the work of the future. When we discuss the workplace of the future, we trap ourselves within the offices we currently have. Henry Ford said, “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” We don’t need a faster horse, we need a whole new model. We need to understand the work of the future, what it could be, and what we want it to be. A new concept of work will guide the spaces we design to support it. And they won’t be offices.
