Due to the inordinate number of influences impinging on office design, including economic conditions, architectural and design trends, vendor product development, client needs and interests, and relevant standards and regulations, trying to predict the “office of the future” can be extremely risky. Temptations to be merely descriptive and provide critiques of current practice or to be merely prescriptive and spin interesting stories in support of design solutions looking for a problem must be transcended to capture and integrate the relevant societal, technological, and organizational trends.

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