Office space exploration: Reimagining the workplace

Covid-19 changed our approach to the office, but bold thinking is needed to secure its future.

Redesigning workplaces need not be costly or permanent, but it cannot be allowed to obscure the need to reinvent the old habits of work and management. PHOTO: ST FILE
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With hindsight, it is easy to scoff at employers who were making firm plans for RTO - return to the office - in mid-2020, when the pandemic was really only just getting started.

But offices loom large in the executive psyche. They can also be a skyscraping financial commitment, second only to pay.

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