Employees want healthier, more sustainable offices after COVID, says survey

Following almost two years of work-from-home orders, businesses and governments are seeking to bring employees back to traditional workplaces. While  working from home will continue to form part of many businesses’ employment structures in the long term, a separate question lingers over what the office of the future may look like. A new report by NEXT Energy Technologies titled “The Case for Office Space: How Buildings Need to Change to Suit a Climate-Conscious, COVID-Weary Workforce” suggests that many employees will only accept office environments that respond to the needs of human health and the climate crisis. NEXT’s findings, available to download here, were the result of a survey carried out among over 450 remote employees and more than 150 senior managers across business verticals, which expose areas of significant alignment and divergence over how future offices should be designed and operated. “Employees will not settle for the offices they once had; they want healthier...