THE VALUE OF AN OFFICE
You may have you heard it said that a customer who buys a drill, doesn’t actually want a drill, s/he wants a hole. Similarly, says Slumbers, companies don’t actually want offices, they want productive workforces.
So he discusses what offices and routines might look like when (if) we finally get on top of the Coronovirus. While some people are loving not having to commute, others hate it, feeling isolated and lonely.
The most likely outcome, he suggests, is a shift from companies having their own dedicated office, 7 days a week, to their renting fully kitted-out offices for, say, two days a week, so they can still get their people together without taking on the costs of all that space