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"Mixed office" is becoming a new trend

2022-06-17

With the development of teleconference and collaborative office application software,and the normalization of prevention and control of COVID-19,the boundary between home and office has become increasingly blurred. At present, the "3+2" mixed office mode (five-day working week, allowing employees to choose 1-2 days of remote office) is being tried out in some domestic enterprises.

For home furnishing enterprises, how to adapt to the new office trend, re-examine the design and application of space,and create a more flexible and systematic office and home experience has become an urgent question to be answered.

For consumers, how can household products that focus on home office, mixed office and other selling points gain their favor?


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In his book Cubicle:The Evolution of The Office, Nigel Savar predicted that by 2020,freelancers,temporary employees,daily wage workers and independent contractors will account for 40% or even 50% of the labor market according to the trend of Internet popularization.

In other words, the number of people who stay in the office to deal with affairs will gradually decrease. On the contrary, more and more people will stay at home to deal with affairs. The home office may be the future trend of the office.

Today, these predictions are becoming a reality. In February this year, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) released the 49th statistical report on the development of China's Internet. It showed that by December 2021, the number of online office users had reached 469 million.

At the same time, the COVID-19 has also accelerated the employees' coming out of the lattice. The 2021 China office space survey report by Gensler, a well-known architecture firm, surveyed more than 3000 professionals. The results showed that 99% of the respondents said that they worked full-time in the company, or adopted the mixed office mode to flexibly switch between the company and various office locations.

The rise of the above-mentioned office methods has given birth to a new office ecology, and the boundary between home and office space has become increasingly vague. More and more consumers realize that diversified Office methods need different office facilities and Furniture to support them. Office Furniture with multi-function, mobility and space utilization is attracting their attention.

When searching social media and e-commerce platforms, it is not difficult to find that the lift table is one of the most frequently mentioned home office goods. In addition to raising and lowering the height, standing and sitting alternately to meet the needs of different users, such products also have the functions of home appliance linkage, sedentary reminder, wireless charging and so on, which are favored by consumers.


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In the future, the clear boundary between office and self use will be gradually blurred. Furniture brands with the ability of cross domain collaboration will certainly take the lead in occupying this business opportunity.

Naturally, this also puts forward higher requirements for the product design and operation of office furniture enterprises. In terms of product design, it will be a new challenge for designers and furniture brands to integrate the design advantages of these two fields to create high-quality products and more flexible and systematic office and home experience.

On the other hand, compared with self use furniture, office furniture has always been a market with low attention and asymmetric information. Consumers often face channel agents rather than manufacturers.

Under the mixed office trend, how the office furniture enterprises succeed also involves the supply chain problem.

The supply side here covers a wider range. It is not only to provide furniture products suitable for the market demand, but also to provide a series of complete supply chains such as design, R&D, manufacturing, sales, promotion and logistics. Whether they are ready to meet the new market needs to be answered by enterprises and industries.

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