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SPACE are not AV or IT consultants, but we hear a lot from our clients about technology—mainly reporting that it doesn’t work. Thus the responses left are pleasing to see.

However, the overwhelmingly positive response to Q25 shouldn’t mask a complaint we hear repeatedly from the clients: the time wasted setting up your laptop when you arrive.

Fewer desks and a desk booking system, coupled with a range of computing technologies and personal preferences, can result in five minutes every morning being spent hunting for cables or adjusting monitors. This is one of the many reasons why some prefer to have their own desk.

Three years following the first lockdown, it would be surprising, and somewhat worrying, if remote work was still a problem for a large number of respondents.

One of the reasons we have heard from clients (and from some of our own employees) as to why the office is so popular is that it offers fast and reliable connectivity.

Combining the themes of desk work and remote work, the home environment for many replicates their workplace experience as best as possible. Where multiple monitors in the workplace are seen as being essential, but are not available at home, can productivity be compared?