1、Workers need the office to drive their productivity;and its time for the workplace to meet the moment.PHILIPPINESCANADAU.S.SAUDI ARABIAUAEMEXICOSINGAPOREUKGERMANYIdeal time needed in the office during a workweek56%62%62%66%62%64%62%64%68%GLOBAL WORKPLACE SURVEY COMPARISON 2023Since Gensler first sta

2、rted its Workplace Performance Surveys in 2005,workplace design has constantly evolved.The workplace has been on a consistent trajectory towards more diverse,dynamic,and open spaces over the past two decades.For the most part,the workplace has kept pace with shifts in how employees work.Now,we are b

3、eginning to see that the two have fallen out of sync.Emerging from the pandemic,organizations across the world are navigating new employee expectations alongside“stagflation”a condition of simultaneous high inflation and low growth caused by emerging geopolitical tensions,uneven pandemic recovery,an

4、d bottlenecks in global supply chains.The stakes have been raised globally to create workplaces that optimize both performance and employee experience.Workplace design has traditionally been primarily based on efficiency-centric business metrics such as density.The rise of hybrid working and an ever

5、ywhere working model has empowered office workers with the agency to map their own work schedules across different locations throughout their workweek.They are guided by the experiences they want and the tasks they need to perform.The accelerated shift to mobile work has created a universal challeng

6、e for the workplace.Average office occupancy rates are hovering at around 46.3%,half of pre-pandemic levels according to Kastle Systems data from April 2023.This aligns with our international panel of respondents who report spending half of their typical working week in the office,on average.Now is