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Space Design: The Next Generation

WEST ORANGE, NJ-Workplaces should be designed with today's--and tomorrow's--workers in mind.

By Maria Wood | Updated on April 07, 2009

WEST ORANGE, NJ-When devising office layouts for today’s workers, designers should keep in mind the desires of future employees. That was one of the points made during a panel on “Space Trends and the Needs of Today’s Tenants,” sponsored by NAIOP-NJ.

Andrew Garnar-Wortzel, principal and strategic director at Gensler, said that once the baby boomers retire, offices will be populated by a younger generation that is accustomed to a different kind of work environment. Therefore, he said, offices designed today must take into account the needs of tomorrow’s labor force, which is embracing the concept of a mobile workplace.

His colleague and fellow panelist, Dana M. Jenkins, principal and design director at Gensler, agreed. “Mobility is important to the upcoming generation of workers,” she said.Such mobility, however, could signify “the need for half of the real estate we have today,” Garnar-Wortzel said. “But it also requires a better performing workplace.”

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