Offices should become cultural hubs and even art galleries (Getty Images)
“Ditch the desks and ditch the boardroom! Tell your people to bring their trunks and they will love working for you.”
So said Robert Dowling, CEO of Deanlow Consulting in Ontario in 2016, after revealing that his employees spent their days paddling around a company swimming pool with laptops to promote creative thinking.
We’re five years on, and whilst people may have scoffed at Dowling’s enthusiasm for an ‘Aquatic Work Environment’ at the time, the Covid-19 pandemic is causing a sea change in attitudes as to what the office environment could, and should, be.