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The way we work is changing. Today’s employees want open spaces, easy collaboration and the ability to fit work around times when they are at their most productive – while employers are looking for ways to attract the best talent and improve efficiency and creativity.

The future work place isn’t just an open plan office or hot-desking, it’s a flexible environment that gets the best out of people, wherever they might be. Meanwhile the next generation of tools are being driven by employees who want the flexibility of consumer services and apps in the workplace.

For CIOs and network managers, this means infrastructure that allows people to connect remotely, provides flexible bandwidth to deal with collaboration tools or new technologies and with the ability to quickly roll out new services or applications.

Following on from our paper on the future network we’ve taken a look at the future workplace – from the behaviours and technologies driving change to the benefits for employees and employers embracing them. Download the Future Workplace paper here.

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