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Executive Corner

Mobility: The New Workplace Imperative

Enabling mobility in the workplace through design and location strategies, supportive technology and encouraging HR policies is not new. But the current “perfect storm” of the global economic crisis, the need to retain top talent, and pressures for environmentally sustainable solutions have made the mobility option more attractive and critical than ever.

The new workplace imperative has been evolving over the last fifteen years. Work became untethered to a specific location and began to be performed in all sorts of places outside of the traditional office building. The business drivers include employees’ new expectations of the workplace, mature technology, embracement of sustainable practices for real estate, an increase in global competition and, most recently, the economic recession.

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