Creating a Flexible Office Space Post-Pandemic

if I had to give a piece of advice to people who were redesigning their office, who were preparing for this back to the office generation, it's, it's be willing to change. It's be adaptable. If we had really written down on a piece of paper, what back to the office was going to look like multiple points during 2020, 2021 and already in 2022, all of those plans would look completely different. Be prepared to throw your plans out the window, to change, to, to listen to your employees, to listen to workplace strategists. And what's next because those are the companies that people are going to want to stay at. And this battle for talent right now is bigger than it's ever been. And so. A huge asset that you might not have looked at before is the retention ability of your office. Do people love to come here? Does it allow them to do their best work? Is it oriented for the type of work that they want to do? They got so used to focusing at home and doing heads-down work that they're coming back to an office where everyone's excited to see each other, but there's really no ability or tools to get that focus work done. And if your focus strategy is, gosh, I hope you have some noise-canceling headphones. You're behind the curve. You really need to adapt and you need to put tools and building blocks in place for your people to get the work done that they need to get done and understand that over 5,000 of a white-collar American's job is focused work. It's head down. I need to get this product, task, problem solved, and really our offices are made for meetings and collaboration and honestly, a lot of noise. And so focusing on privacy and giving people those tools to do the work that matters is going to be the next challenge for the offices of today.