Outlook · Office Report 2025

Culture has a physical address.

The Art of Working explores how the spaces we share express an organisation’s culture, strategy and everyday choices.

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The Art of Working considers the workplace as an expression of organisational culture and strategy. Its starting point is the interaction between space, people, context and the way work is organised.

Design can support the quality of everyday work through light, acoustics, a suitable mix of environments and places for informal exchange.

This perspective provides a useful companion to the numerical findings: decisions about square metres also shape how an organisation works together.

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The art of working