Workplaces can now be customized with smart,
connected technologies to reduce energy costs, optimize
space utilization, create enhanced experiences for
employees, and strengthen corporate culture and values.
Smart offices employ connected devices to track and
gather data on occupation, movement, and resources,
then adapt systems and services accordingly to improve
the performance of both the building and the people who
work there.
Ask any business leader what has had the greatest impact on their industry or organization over the last few decades, and you’re bound to get the same, popular response: technology. That’s because nearly every aspect of running a modern company is now affected by technology."
-Elizabeth Dukes
EVP & CMO, iOffice
In the past, businesses had to collect data about
employees and facilities manually, which was both
ineffcient and relatively ineffective. Advances in
connected technologies have made the continuous
collection of data easy. The challenge now is figuring out
how to manage and analyze the nearly incomprehensible
volume of data that workplace technology can provide.
We are now entering the third wave of the smart building. Building managers today have the real-time capabilities to adapt and recon gure workspaces to support important workforce objectives, such as well-being, innovation, and productivity. This marks a spectacular leap into the future: the dumb container is now becoming a smart arena for new ways of working.
How did we get here? How did the tools and technologies of real-time real estate emerge? Workplace expert Jeremy Myerson talks about six game-changing shifts in offce design.
If we change our portfolio, or change how we want to run our portfolio, we have to put numbers to it, and this is something I am pushing forward very hard. I want to have everything number-based, as much as possible, quantifed. And then it is easy to communicate to our people.”
Christoph Rogge
Global Expert Workspace Strategy, La Roche Ltd
