The future of workplaces.
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Amongst the fraught arguments on post-pandemic work flexibility is an underlying fear. What will happen to our cities if workers only go to the office a few days a week? Humans have flocked to cities for centuries prior to the industrial age birth of the modern office tower.
“A great city is an inventory of the possible.” wrote Rene Descartes in the 17th century.
A city is a place where the ability to create a range of different futures for ourselves is made manifest. But a city that consists largely of closed-off office buildings broken up by chain food outlets is unlikely to fulfill Descartes’ ambition.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr Libby Sander is an assistant professor of organisational behaviour at Bond University, a fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, the founder and director of the Future of Work Project, founder of Rethink, past Chair of Goldspaces, an urban renewal and cultural development platform, and an agenda contributor at the World Economic Forum. Libby has a PhD in organisational behaviour from Griffith University, and she is an acknowledged expert on the future of work and a leading authority on the design of the workplace and its influence on thinking, emotion and performance.
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