While many are pondering the future of the office space, Tangram's Mark Coxon has a vision of how the workplace will change permanently. He expects a blended work schedule to be the future of office. That means a mash-up of remote work and in-office work.

"The new work environment will likely entail a transition from 40 or 50 hours of work done each week outside the office to a blend with perhaps 20 or 30 hours inside the office," Coxon, the technology sales director at Tangram, tells GlobeSt.com. "We still need those spaces for deep focus work, especially for people like millennials and Gen Z who may not have a dedicated home working space and where they have roommates or other distractions."

This change in work schedules is going to change a lot about the workplace, but meeting formats are going to see the biggest overhaul. "There are three reasons to have a meeting: to build a team, to form consensus, or to make a decision," says Coxon. "Organizations must examine how they are we using spaces to achieve one of those goals."

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.