Owners of serviced offices in Northampton may want to evaluate their workplace's design, after one expert described how it affects people's work.
Gary Wingrove, incoming president at the British Council of Offices, explained employee interaction is affected by the workplace's layout, stating informal office environments encourage interaction by allowing people to work differently.
Technology is one of the key areas in which office design is changing, he argued.
"You have got to bear in mind the number of different generations that are working there," he noted, indicating younger people are already used to mobile technology and older people tend to be '"set in their ways".
But he also stated some employers have forgotten how business has changed in the last few years, with office design reflecting how people used to work in offices rather than how they presently do.
Writing for Estate Review in August 2010, he predicted that cloud computing and personal digital assistants (PDAs) such as the iPad are obvious areas for change, foreseeing a nearby time when one handheld device has replaced all other office appliances.
New and innovative office designs will become a defining trend in the property sector over the next 20 years, he concluded.
