Is almost every desk empty and almost every meeting room full? The ghastly modern office needs a reboot, says the Financial Times’ Pilita Clark.
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But since the shift to hybrid working, I often think it would be more appropriate to have rooms named “Hen’s Teeth” or “Gold Dust” or any other word that means “spectacularly rare and hard to find”.Tracking down a free meeting room was hard enough before the pandemic. But it’s hopeless now that so many more people come to the office just to meet each other, or visitors, or do a Zoom call.
Its anonymised data from the United States, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and six other economies showed walled meeting rooms are the most heavily used office space by a long shot. More than a third of office desks are never used, even though workstations in a typical, traditionally designed office take up around 80 per cent of the floor space, the XY Sense report showed.
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