Teknion’s Future Smart

In Future Smart, Teknion addresses the sudden change in the workplace—and the world—and how the past year has challenged us all to think differently. This knowledge-based piece focuses on future workplace layouts, innovative product design, and empathetic, people-first office design. Teknion defines Future Smart as being able to manage uncertainty through anticipating change, improving resilience, and adapting to quickly changing conditions. To be “future smart” as a workplace is to be agile, ready and willing to reshuffle priorities, and to adapt to new realities as they emerge. “We were thinking about our clients and what an incredibly complicated time it is to be in business. Now, they have to consider how people will return to the office, and all of these other things. We were thinking about how our clients plan and sell during times of uncertainty. Future Smart is meant to serve as a guideline,” said Steve Delfino, vice …