Post navigation The Office of the Future is NOT the Office of the Past -- A Look into 2020 More recently, developments in mobility, software, personal clouds and cloud-based services, user interface paradigms and a flood of big data all change the way we work and place demands on how we work. Research Overview This research provides guidance on selected potential requirements for workspace projects. It's aimed at IT leaders working in the project design phase with the architecture, engineering and construction teams responsible for the office construction project. Key Findings: Changes in facility design can have a major impact on productivity and employee satisfaction Buildings will get very smart, as will many other emerging devices -- all of which interact with how people work and how the organization secures its assets Video and audio will be dramatically more important, and other modalities (such as hand waving) may rise to dominate certain activities (such as navigating through simulations and big data). The nature of work is changing, and as nonroutine work displaces routine work, facilities will need to support collaborative and social activities better. Recommendations: Determine which technology changes are most likely to hit your enterprise and begin evaluating their impact on your facility design Work with other managers to determine overall behavioral objectives for the new design (such as improved speed of communication and decision making), and establish baseline measures (the before state) and targets for the new facility. Incorporate an analysis of the social, cultural and other factors