Andrew Hulbert
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first heard Apr 2026
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I'm generalizing, of course, but we know large customers that have less than 15% occupancy on Mondays and Fridays.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursdays, the twats, as they call them, they do come in on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursdays, and that tends to be a higher thing.
We are seeing the younger generation generally wanting two or three days in the office.
We're seeing some of the older generation also want that because where COVID was big for this sector of workplace, people who were in their 50s, who'd been going to a workplace for 30 years, all of a sudden in COVID, they didn't need to go anymore.
And they realized that they could do some of their work from home.
And there was a lot of retirement earlier than what we'd expected as a population within the U.K.,
But the middle group, so sort of people between, say, 25 and 45, we know they do want to be in the office and that that group is still there because they call them Generation Y and a little bit of X. Those ones want to be there.
My other hypothesis is the alpha generation, which will come after Generation Z, as we mentioned, I think they will also want to be in the office space.
So...
What we definitely saw a shift from is, say, beer Fridays in the office and now beer Thursdays.
And because probably people are working from home on Friday, people may stay later and they may do more social activities because it doesn't matter the next day because they can sleep in a bit more because they're not traveling to the office.
We are also seeing customers or clients, they want much higher quality space.
So although they may not have as many desks, the space that they do have is higher quality because when those people are in the office, they need to have a brilliant experience whilst they're there.
And that it's not new that the likes of Google, Facebook, Twitter, et cetera, had these amazing office spaces because that's how they attracted talent.
But even more now, the office needs to do more for people than just be a place to rest your laptop down.
And the quality of the interactions on those Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursdays is really important now.
And that could be you need more quiet rooms, you need more coffee stations, you need more sofas, you need more PlayStations, whatever it is to make people interact with each other.
I think that's more important than ever.
But it's a constantly shifting thing.
And Barclays commissioned a piece of work called Five Generations in the Workplace.
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