Wasteful buildings

Consider the average corporate office block and get your calculator out. It is usually only occupied five days out of seven, sometimes only 4. That is 71%. Each working day, it is occupied for at most 12 hours - 35.5%. I am told that the average desk is occupied 40% of the time. That is a staggering 14.2% of the total available hours - which is costing the company 100% in lease costs, rates, heating, security and infrastructure. Add to that the lost time and huge inefficiencies of moving people from their home to the workplace, and the resistance to job changes because of location changes, and the whole concept of going to work in an office looks highly questionable.

If people were able to interact remotely as productively as they do face to face, we empowered and trusted them to work remotely, and most important of all we gave them the tools to do the job in the form of modern IT systems, think what an efficiency gain that would be. Hang on a minute, haven't we been here before? Wasn't I going on recently about the younger generation, who are already used to working this way? Watch this space.

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