Technology

Supporting and recruiting engineering talent means creating spaces for deep focus.

The tech industry’s core talent base will always be its engineers, a group whose productivity depends on specific environmental conditions. For engineers, peak performance is often associated with places for deep focus work that enable them to achieve a flow state; however, these deep focus spaces ultimately benefit all workers by minimizing distractions at the office.

Advanced workplace analytics and pilot projects will unlock insights into worker usage and behavior in a matter of weeks.

When it comes to understanding how people and spaces interact, we’re on the doorstep of a revolution. Emerging workplace analytics software will enable companies to unlock data on the specific ways workers use workspaces and how they feel about them in real time.

Embodied carbon is where tech must tighten its belt to meet ESG goals.

The tech industry carries an outsized embodied carbon footprint because of how quickly the average workplace scraps or renovates spaces every few years. As ESG goals become paramount for investors, the opportunity for tech is to lean into workplace products ready-made for disassembly and reuse.