As more employees begin to trickle back to the office, it’s time for companies to reassess their workspace and meeting room strategies to serve both in-office and remote workers.
Hybrid work is in a state of flux. Almost 60% of organizations are now requiring some in-office presence, according to Metrigy’s “Employee Engagement Optimization: 2025” study of 440 organizations. Another 20.5% of organizations allow employees to choose if and when to come into the office. Just 42.3% anticipate keeping their policy as is in 2026, while 56.5% anticipate changes — either requiring more in-office time or providing employees with more choices about where they want to work.
As a result, business, facilities and IT leaders must engineer a return to office (RTO) workspace that features meeting spaces that properly support collaboration, regardless of whether the employee is in the office or working remotely. This goal is even more important for companies with fixed RTO policies.
Meeting spaces must reflect an attractive and frictionless environment that enables workers to collaborate more effectively than if they worked remotely — thus “earning the commute.” Moreover, workspaces must be flexible enough to support a variety of meeting scenarios, not just today, but for the future as well.
The evolving office space
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