The majority of people like to go to the office to collaborate and socialise with colleagues, according to a survey of office workers undertaken by Runway East.
The flexible workspace operator questioned 450 office workers across the UK and found 65% like to go to the office to socialise with colleagues and 64% of workers like to go to the office to collaborate with colleagues.
Nearly a quarter (24%) of people said they go to the office to get away from their family, with men twice as likely than women to do so.
Only 19% of survey respondents said they just wanted to work from home, compared with 58% who wanted to work from a flexible office space and 23% who wanted to work in their company HQ.
Natasha Guerra, CEO of Runway East, said: “The rhetoric is that people don’t want to go back into the office, the reality is people don’t want to commute and they want more than a desk. Employers need to shift their thinking from providing just the basics to providing a space to work, collaborate and enhance their experience of working – the office isn’t quite dead, just the boring ones!
“Our research clearly shows the office still has purpose, it is a place to collaborate and meet with colleagues – these things are just too hard to replicate virtually.”
