AUSTIN, TX—Workplace strategies are shifting to meet the needs of today's hyper-connected mobile workforce, according to CBRE's 2018 Americas Occupier Survey. The results of this year's survey highlight the strategies that executives are executing for the benefit of business lines and employees.

The first strategy is reinventing workplace standards, with 45% anticipating migrating to an activity-based workplace. The second is unassigned seating, with survey respondents seeing space plans changing dramatically during the next three years. The breakdown is 38% going to a partially unassigned seating environment and 14% expecting to adopt unassigned seating for everyone.

“Companies are coming to the realization that they are paying for 100% of their workforce to be housed when on any given day, only 50 to 75% of their workforce might show up in the office,” Nate Stricklen, senior vice president at CBRE in Austin, tells GlobeSt.com. “Employers are beginning to adapt their workspaces to reflect this by getting more dense, taking less square footage and providing more flexible work schedules for their employees. The new workforce is mobile and the new office has to reflect this by providing more of a destination versus just a place to work and adjusting culturally from the historic 'me' space to more 'we' space within the space.”