Many of us haven't spent a working week sat alongside colleagues in the office in more than a year, yet in that time we have debated, reviewed, surveyed and speculated at length about the future of the workplace. As the pandemic and necessary isolation have continued, initial predictions of the death of the office seem to be giving way to more nuanced and diverse views. 'Surveys of our own employees and corpo-rates have found a consensus in that most people want to work from home for one to two days a week,' says Elaine Rossall, head of UK offices research at property consultant JLL, which late last year surveyed 2,000 office workers in 10 countries. Nearly three quarters of its respondents favoured a return to the office, but not necessarily a resumption of previous normality. Almost half those questioned were keen for their workplace to have collaborative spaces and roughly the same share wanted their office to have a direct connection to the outdoors, while almost a third were looking to their employer to give greater emphasis to wellbeing.
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