Reconfiguring workspace configurations for a sustainable future: Understanding the links between new working trends and the sustainability of workspaces in a post pandemic reality

Climate change is advancing at an unforeseen pace, with the built environment responsible for 40% of global emissions. With the acceptance of climate risk as a financial risk, market participants bear the responsibility of mitigating this problem. Office real estate plays a crucial role as a sustainable workspace is also crucial in its retention...

Office of the Future: A Study on Office Reduction and Perceived Employee Productivity of Global Pharmaceutical companies in the Netherlands

Restrictions from the covid pandemic are lifted. However, the office remains changed, the hybrid way of working seems to stick. Employees want flexibility and choose when to work from home and when they work in the office. The norm of a hybrid work week is working three days in the office and two days from home. Resulting in office space that is...

Unveiling the Hybrid Work Paradigm: A Study on the Effect of Hybrid Working on Organisational Commitment of Employees and Work Environment Preferences Among Young Professionals of ORGANISATION X

This study aims to explore the impact of employee separation as a result of hybrid working on the organisational commitment of ORGANISATION X’s workforce. The findings of this research aim to offer valuable insights to ORGANISATION X's understanding on how the alternating remote and in-office work setup may influence the commitment levels of...

Hybrid Working, Quality Living: Transformation of densification for live-work mixed-use neighborhood in post-pandemic office districts: Beukenhorst, Hoofddorp

“Hybrid Working, Quality Living” seizes the opportunity of the surging hybrid remote working trend to promote work style and lifestyle changes in office districts and beyond. Remote working has been developing but has never been applied on such a global scale before. Since the end of 2019, it has brought our attention back to several long...

The effect of the balance between office and remote work on individual employee performance: A quantitative study on the hybrid work setting in the manufacturing industry in The Netherlands

The support for the hybrid work setting increased during the pandemic, but there are a lot of challenges to overcome. It is important to study the hybrid work setting. Based on the findings in the existing literature it is found that little research has been done on the effect of the hybrid work setting on individual employee performance. In the...

Hybrid profiles for knowledge workers - flexible workplace and time

Background and aim - As a result of Covid-19 pandemic many organizations have adopted more flexible and mobile working arrangements. Knowledge workers have been able to choose significantly more freely than before when and where they work, hybrid work has generalized. As organizations move into the post-pandemic period, they will re-evaluate...

The role of FM post pandemic: Delivering employee experience and meeting business needs

Background and aim - This paper reviews the engagement in a case study organisation adapting to hybrid working to determine the post pandemic role of FM and to understand how FM can drive and be a key stakeholder in the cocreation of the human-centric workplace. Methods / Methodology - The study was carried out using an action research strategy...

Post-pandemic office real estate: A pilot study of using scenario planning to develop scenarios with quantitative office space demand for corporate real estate

The influence of the COVID-19 pandemic is profound and enduring to the entire world. A ‘recovery’ to go back in time is unlikely to happen due to the lack of uncertainty in the future. The darkest time will eventually pass, whereas post-pandemic, the era in which the pandemic is perceived to have subsided, can still accelerate existing trends...

Boundless Collaboration: A post-pandemic vision for distributed teams

This thesis describes the design journey that resulted in a post-pandemic vision for distributed teams and the development of a concept to fulfil the lack of spontaneous encounters in hybrid working environments. The research follows two different approaches, the double-diamond and the Dive method and includes extensive literature review, remote...

Improving group dynamics and involvement in hybrid meetings

In 2020 our lives have been turned upside down by the outbreak of COVID-19. Working from home became the new standard, forcing the whole world into the biggest remote working experiment ever. The already existing remote working trend caught wind and changed the future of work to hybrid working in an office ecosystem. With a large number of...