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If everyone s going to be working from home in the Vaccine Economy, what becomes of all that real estate that tech employers have accumulated over the years? What - and where - will the Office of the Future be?
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The ongoing debate around the post-pandemic Future of Work has focused heavily on the enforced shift to remote working, aka Working From Home (WFH). The future, it is assumed by most commentators, will be hybrid-shaped, with knowledge workers unwilling to make the daily commute back to a corporate office part of their routine again.
That being so, there’s an obvious question to be addressed - what do we do with all those skyscrapers that tech firms have spent so much time and money on building? If the workforce is intent on staying close to home, there’s a lot of space going begging in a lot of real estate around the world.