“You can only be in the virtual world for so long. You need the physical and digital to work hand in hand.”
There’s a lot to miss (spontaneous conversations, lunches with colleagues) and to not miss (awkward holiday parties in the conference room, dry cleaning bills) about being in an office. By making remote work a norm, the pandemic has not only upended office rituals; it has likely changed the workplace forever. As many as 23 million people, or roughly one-tenth of adults of working age, in the United States are planning to relocate, often in search of more affordable housing, according to one survey. “Office centricity is over,” tweeted the CEO of the tech company Shopify as early as last May. Designers who previously applied themselves to creating Insta-worthy spaces are now figuring out which environments can support a dispersed workforce.
To learn more about what the Great Work Migration portends, organized a virtual roundtable with the heads of three prominent California-based design firms: David Galullo, the CEO and chief
