Andrew Cooke, Strategic Director, Bruntwood Works Leaders Digest

The future of the office and the long-term impact of COVID on the workplace and ways of working is one of the enduring topics during the pandemic. Seemingly everyone has a view on whether we will snap back to old ways, desperate to socialise in the real world again and even missing our commute, or we believe things will never be the same again. So how are office developers and operators making sense of these opposing views? Bruntwood Works are one of the most innovative commercial real estate developers in the UK, so we spoke to their Strategic Director, Andrew Cooke, to understand how they're responding to changing customer needs and what post-pandemic work might look like.