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“Wait a minute, Doc, are you telling me you built a time machine?”

Last week, The Instant Group and MYSS hosted a dynamic webinar that revolved around a fascinating and urgent theme: the hybrid workspace. The main question: will short term reactivity become long term reality?

In Q4 of 2021, The Instant Group conducted a global survey aimed at flexible office operators to gain insight into the trends and demands of the changing market. This report covers key highlights found in this survey.

Where is the flex market is growing? Is city centre demand really over? Why does everyone love the donut? And are entrepreneurs driving growth? Find answers to these questions and more in this 2022 forecast.

As we all wrestle with hybrid ways of working, Instant's 2022 Predictions focus on how we can make this new approach to workspace strategy habitual.

With the end of the school and summer holidays behind us, there are increased signs of the UK flex market returning to some degree of normality. Business confidence is returning, but the desire for ongoing flexibility remains high, as reflected in the continued rise in contractual occupancy within flexible office space.

Instant established the Agile CRE ThinkTank (ACT) in March 2020 to explore and develop best practices around Productivity, Health & Safety and Real Estate in the face of the global pandemic. Over the last 6 months we have interviewed over 35 senior Real Estate, Facilities & HR professionals globally about their return to office plans.

Throughout the course of the pandemic, those both inside and outside the industry have often predicted that the agility inherent in the flexible workspace industry would result in buildings emptying and many operators going out of business. In our previous review of how occupancy rates in the UK had been impacted by the pandemic in November last year, we reported that occupancy rates had indeed fallen, but not by anywhere near the levels that had been predicted. Now, 6 months on, we take a look at how this trend is changing as restrictions are lifted and employees start to return to the office.