The Future Office
Eat Sleep Work Repeat
Bruce Daisley
4.7 • 989 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
What can we learn about what is going to happen next with work by chatting to the leaders of the sector that supplies our workplaces? You might think very little. There’s certainly no shortage of people in the commercial property sector who have been intent on suggesting that we need to go back to the rat race of all office/all the time.
But in that space there are some visionaries who are helping us seeing what is staring us in the face. Last year we’ve spoken to Antony Slumbers, on the newsletter I’ve shared links to the Work Bold podcast by Caleb Parker.
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Today I add Richard Pickering to that list. I was delighted to hear Richard, someone whose writing I’ve been following for a couple of years, speak at an event I was presenting at.
We had such a stimulating discussion on the sidelines that I was desperate to persuade Richard to come on here to talk. Richard is the Chief Strategy Officer at Cushman & Wakefield, one of the largest commercial real estate services companies in the world. His job is to make sense of the changes happening in the demand for property and to advise clients where we’re going.
He’s straight talking - both about what the office needs to adapt and how this is going to have ripple effects for companies and cities.
We talk about:
- How we’ve only just started understanding different modalities of work
- How firms might start including commuting time in the working day
- How cities might start offering public transport for free
- How cities will become younger
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| 0:00.0 | If you run a restaurant in London, you need to know about Square. |
| 0:03.4 | The integrated point of sale system built four restaurants. |
| 0:06.7 | It's payments, point of sale and reporting all in one. |
| 0:10.1 | It also connects your front and back of house, which you nail every order and Square's reporting feature can help you save hours on accounting every week. |
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| 0:22.0 | Square Up Europe Limited is authorized by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Electronic |
| 0:26.1 | Money Regulations 2011. |
| 0:27.7 | Registered reference number 900846. Hello it's easy sleep work repeat on Bruce Day's |
| 0:38.4 | to podcast about making work better. |
| 0:40.8 | Now my perspective throughout the last 18 months has been to try to see what other |
| 0:47.0 | people in other sectors are saying and what opinions they're forming and I've been really |
| 0:51.6 | interested in the perspectives of the commercial real estate sector. |
| 0:55.6 | Now it's worth saying in commercial real estate that's broadly people who own property for as a business and |
| 1:02.4 | in commercial real estate, there's been a lot of people who've been trying to be cheerleaders |
| 1:08.0 | for us going back to the office. |
| 1:10.0 | You know, they've either been lobbying politicians, |
| 1:12.0 | or they've been trying to get newspapers to sort of print |
| 1:17.3 | article saying we need to get back to the office and you know you've seen a lot of big business interests |
| 1:22.0 | try and suggest that the office needs to be |
| 1:24.9 | we need to strongly encourage people to work return to the office. |
| 1:28.3 | However, in the commercial property sector there are some visionaries and there are so last year we spoke to |
| 1:33.8 | Anthony slumbers and I'd strongly recommend anyone check out that podcast or go |
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