In this episode of What the F* is Happening to the Office?, Bob Fox sits down with Becca Landwehr, a strategic planner and workplace strategist, to discuss how offices can adapt to the realities of modern work.
Work happens on the Metro, at the kitchen table after the kids are in bed, and on a Teams call squeezed between a doctor’s appointment and school pickup. The office was built for nine-to-five at an assigned desk, and most of us don’t work that way anymore. As my guest Becca Landwehr puts it, the office has to be okay with that.
Becca Landwehr is a strategic planner and workplace strategist, trained in both communication and interior design, and she’s worked on both the design firm and owner side. What Bob appreciated most is how pragmatic she is. She isn’t anti-office, but she’s not pretending virtual work is going away either. Her first question about any space is simple: does it actually work for the people using it?
They talk about a company with assigned desks nobody uses, plus return-to-office mandates, why core hours and anchor days beat “thou shalt come in,” what to measure beyond badge swipes, and the simple exercise she’d hand any leader facing a lease decision this year.
Credits:
- Created & Directed By Bob Fox
- Produced By Work Design Studios
