{"id":8326,"date":"2018-09-11T18:03:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T17:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/?p=8326"},"modified":"2018-09-11T18:03:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T17:03:02","slug":"future-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/future-of-work\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Work will Have Money Trees and Unicorns if These Kids Get Their Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8328 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/FOW-quiz.png\" alt=\"future-of-work-GCUCUK\" width=\"700\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/FOW-quiz.png 700w, http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/FOW-quiz-300x176.png 300w, http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/FOW-quiz-426x250.png 426w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Workspace industry professionals spend a lot of time talking about, designing and building the future of work.<\/p>\n<p>But what do kids\u2014the people who actually <em>are<\/em> the future of work\u2014think?<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.area.co.uk\/\">Area<\/a> team decided to find out. The company invited 50-plus children to share their thoughts on workspace design, tech, workplace annoyances, the work week, retirement age and more.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8327\" src=\"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/FOW-pitch.png\" alt=\"future-of-work-pitch\" width=\"700\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/FOW-pitch.png 700w, http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/FOW-pitch-300x207.png 300w, http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/FOW-pitch-362x250.png 362w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The project, which is aptly named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.area.co.uk\/the-future-of-work\">The Future of Work<\/a>, is absolutely brilliant. As the Area website explains, what the team heard from the children was \u201ca fascinating and uncompromising exploration into the future workplace, with infinite possibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Particularly entertaining bits of the children\u2019s feedback include requests for offices in space, secret entrances, money trees \u201cso you don\u2019t have to go to an ATM,\u201d a pool, jet packs, pet unicorns, more flowers, and a chicken and chip shop \u201cbecause no one wants to come to work and just eat vegetables.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See all of Area\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.area.co.uk\/the-future-of-work\">Future of Work videos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Join us at <a href=\"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/\">GCUC UK<\/a> for more conversations about the future of work. The conference agenda includes a panel about <a href=\"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/workspace-design-area\/\">workspace design<\/a> with Area creative director Kathryn O&#8217;Callaghan-Mills.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/e.sparxo.com\/GCUC-UK\">Get tickets to GCUC UK<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workspace industry professionals spend a lot of time talking about, designing and building the future of work. But what do kids\u2014the people who actually are the future of work\u2014think? The Area team decided to find out. 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