Designing for Dialogue: Meaningful Connections for a Flourishing Workplace,
Online
15 January 2025
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Serendipity and Storytelling - Key factors for Designing Great Workplaces,
Online
15 January 2025
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CoreNet Global UK Chapter Predictions and Resolutions 2025,
London
23 January 2025
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BCO East Anglia Talk & Tour: The Optic,
Cambridge
28 January 2025
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BCO North Seminar: Commercial Office Outlook 2025,
Leeds
29 January 2025
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BCO North Talk & Tour: Pilgrim’s Quarter,
Newcastle
30 January 2025
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Stockholm Design Week,
Stockholm
03 February 2025
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Wellbeing at Work Summit Middle East 2025,
Riyadh, Cairo and Dubai
04 February 2025
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May 24, 2023
Hybrid working, work from anywhere and the evolution of the Third Place
by Chelsea Perino • Comment, Property, Workplace design
The restrictions brought about by COVID-19 altered where we work and thus also how, when and through which channels we do work related activities. These changes radically altered the way previously office-based workers thought about ‘work’ as an activity. This new era of hybrid working had a significant impact on traditional models of workplace provisioning. One could argue that pre-COVID-19 the ‘work mindset’ was almost an afterthought because there were distinguishing markers that indicated when you were expected to work and when you were not. If you were in the office, then you were expected to be doing work-related tasks. Then, at the literal end of the day, you switched off your computer and went home and mentally ‘turned-off’ until you returned to work the next morning. More →