Lisa Creffield from Officing Today, recently interviewed our Managing Director, Simon Gunnis on how "technology and a younger workforce are spurring a revolution in office design across Asia". 

 “When you consider  the dynamics in terms of  ‘polar extremes’, the South Pole is what we regard as the traditional workplace solution or ‘allocated real estate’, whereby every employee has an assigned desk or office which is a paradigm dating back to the industrial revolution. The ‘North Pole’ by contrast, would today have to be the purest form of activity based working(ABW), whereby there are no assigned work points and employees match their accommodation needs to the activity demands of the daily schedule,” Gunnis says.  Now, despite traditionally being “a laggard in the adoption of emerging global workplace trends”, Asia is now “moving to the North Pole”.

There are several key trends that are behind this push for change, resulting in a tectonic shift in how employers and workers are using office space, perhaps evidenced best with an expected 10,000 co-working spaces to be opened this year. 

To read more about these trends the full article can be viewed here. 

For insights into our other Top 10 workplace predictions you can download our whitepaper on the topic, Top Ten Trends in Professional Services Firms.