Contemporary technology enables people to work in a wide variety of places apart from traditional offices. People now undertake work activity in a variety of venues such as trains, planes, coffee shops, hotels and at home.
Partly because of this, traditional offices tend to be under-occupied, and a view has developed in corporate real estate circles that to improve the efficiency of the corporate workplace, its focus should be as a place of ‘exchange’, which prioritises provision for people to meet, while work that they undertake on a solo or individual basis should occur wherever else they happen to be. This report covers research to examine the assumption that it is equally productive for people to work anywhere. It is based on empirical evidence from a large scale online survey and a suite of systematic face to face interviews on the issues pertaining to where people choose to work, and why they do so.