Seats include workstations and other office spaces like conference rooms and living room-style seating areas. These days, seating in these shared work settings has overtaken the number of traditional, assigned workstations. In the offices analyzed, 52% of the seats were devoted to these alternative work settings and 48% to assigned workspaces. Office space designers and planners say they are seeing this shift across a wide range of industries. Some employees hold meetings as they walk around the four-lane indoor track that is among the options of work settings offered.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 27, 2017 10:52 UTC