The Workplace You Need Now

8Experience in the Intelligent Digital + Physical Space

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

Arthur C. Clarke, Author, 2001: A Space Odyssey

The personalized, responsible, and experiential workplace is here, with a promise to power performance, attract and retain talent, and create “win-win-win” outcomes for employees, employers, and communities. Delivering on the potential of the workplace now depends on adopting cutting-edge technologies to create the “intelligent” workplace, one that is streamlined, automated, connected, and efficient.

Much as phones have become computers in our hands, and cars are becoming computers on wheels, buildings and workplaces are becoming computers outfitted with walls and furniture. Work today is digitized, and the workplace cannot be the exception.

Next-generation intelligent technologies will connect the physical and digital workplace channels into one compelling hybrid experience, meaning the workplace must bring together hardware, software, sensors, computing power, and streams of data and information to unleash brand new capabilities.

Before we look at the technological components of the intelligent office, it’s important to understand the benefit, starting before the workplace is even built. New design and construction innovations like advanced building-information modeling bring real estate into the virtual world. Digital twins, the digital counterpart to real-world buildings and offices, make optimizing ...