Don’t lose faith in the power of the office

By Alan Bainbridge2020-08-25T05:00:00

The communal workplace offers unrivalled opportunities for productivity, creativity and enjoyment, says Alan Bainbridge, the BBC’s director of real estate

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We are living in a time when the very existence and requirement for offices is being called into question. This level of scrutiny, which I think is short-sighted and a knee-jerk reaction, would have been unthinkable just a few months ago.

When I read articles about “the death of the office” or “the demise of open-plan working”, I fear the headlines do little to capture the importance of offices in our lives – and the complexity of the issues that many businesses are now working through.

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