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2024 trends: the year of the SMART, flexible and active office
If 2023 was about adapting to more fluid working models, 2024 looks set to be about making workplaces work smarter - whether at home, in the office or coffee shops and shared spaces. Strategic layouts, enhanced flexibility and multipurpose environments will be key trends for the upcoming year, alongside the ever-present green office agenda
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CATERING TO FLEXIBLE WORKING
from home at least part of the time.
year is always a good excuse to shake
The return to the office continues to gain
manager for ACCO, notes a surge in office
things up – whether
momentum, and businesses are adapting
refurbishments focusing on hybrid-friendly
diversifying an
to accommodate the hybrid work trend.
spaces. This presents an opportunity for
existing product
While hybrid working is well established,
resellers to provide products that cater to
range, introducing something completely new,
expectations are that this type of model will
this need, from open-layout furniture to
or discovering what is driving current buying
become more permanent as flexible working
lockable storage, desktop and computer
decisions. But what are the major trends
arrangements become the new norm. A
accessories, collaboration tools, privacy
anticipated in 2024 - and how can dealers
study conducted in 2022-23 by 3M revealed
screens and everything in between. As the
make the most of the opportunities presented?
that in the UK, 62% of employees now work
financial year-end approaches, budgets
he start of a new
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Elisabete Wells, regional marketing