Design

The best offices balance buzz and quiet to support both focus and collaboration.

New Gensler data reveals the changes workers are making to fix broken office designs.

Offices are becoming hubs for collaboration, learning, health, and human connection.

Office design is shifting from desks and density to experience, flexibility, and connection.

Workplaces can restore focus, connection, and meaning through intentional slow work.

Data-driven design turns offices into adaptive, engaging, and well-being-focused spaces.

Office lobbies are becoming active, social spaces instead of pass-through entrances.

Well-designed workplaces, not hybrid work, drive employee focus and performance.

In 2026, offices may trade corporate branding for character and purpose.

Manhattan offices face a pivotal choice: renovate or relocate to shape the future workplace.