Future of Office: More Flex, Less 'Google'?

(Joe Brancato, Gensler, and Tracy Wymer, Knoll, join SIOR 2015 president Angela West to share how the collaboration between the three organizations is advancing the direction of office.)

NEW YORK CITY—As reported here in recent months, watershed changes in the office environment have taken over the look of corporate spaces. Designers, furniture providers, HR people, department heads and workers themselves have had to accept a clear shift in the definition of “office,” the so-called “Google-ization” of the workplace, wherein, if you don’t have a Foosball table or power-nap pods, then your office is a thing of the past.