The Future of Work, 2025

This is the third edition of the Global Print 2025 study, Quocirca’s ongoing assessment of the convergence of print and digital technologies in the workplace. In April 2022, Quocirca conducted a survey of 1,021 office workers and 521 IT decision-makers in SMBs and large enterprises across the UK, France, Germany and the US. The survey revealed that many were accelerating their plans for digitisation in the post-pandemic environment, and showed a number of emerging trends in terms of working styles, usage of the office and needs from IT providers. It is important to recognise that these are the opinions and attitudes of these respondents, and likely to be highly reflective of the time the research was conducted and the discourse during that time period.

Since we last consulted the market back in 2019, the world has seen profound change, having been through the first pandemic in a century, as well as the fundamental impacts lockdowns have had on workplaces and the essence of business. As hybrid work becomes the norm, the physical office workspace is undergoing a transformation. It is no longer a place where employees simply go to work, but a space that must facilitate collaboration, as well as support a positive employee experience, sustainability and inclusion – while ensuring effective and cost-efficient use of space. Workplace analytic tools, employee experience platforms, and workflow automation solutions can help make the office element of flexible working compelling and motivating for staff, and productive and efficient for employers.