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NearU Pro in 2025: Built-In Research Tools for Advanced Workspace Planning
Our ongoing research and articles will now be shared within NearU Pro!
Four Key Trends Defining the Office of Tomorrow (2025 Edition)
Explore 2025’s top office trends: hybrid work, smart tech, ethical AI, and wellness-focused design reshaping the future of modern workplace strategy.
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Rethinking health: Strengthening communities & local economic resilience
An inclusive local economy supports health: supermarkets that stock fresh produce, shared/ public mobility methods to help people get around the neighbourhood, businesses and local services that incre...
Rethinking health: Nurturing healthy digital relationships
We rely each other to survive and thrive and in a world where much of our lives are lived online, it is important that our digital relationships promote care and support.
A Different View: Reimagining future workspaces
“The workplace is an interesting term because as far as I'm concerned work is not a place at all. Work is what you do and the way you collaborate with other people is dictated by a whole range of diff...
TOWARDS 15,000 (15-MINUTE) CITIES
What would it be like to start creating 15-minute cities over wider areas? In our new report, we envision a future where we could split geographic locations across multiple 15-minute cities and not...
Future of Work: Work, Life & Learn
Raphael Gielgen, Trendscout for Future of Work Life & Learn at Vitra, discusses the future of work, life and learn.
A Different View: Location independence in the future of work
The future of work is about respecting people’s individuality and accommodating it by offering them that choice in how, when and where they work.
The next era of the web
The spatial web - the ability to create 3D environments within Web 3.0 through elements such as AI, AR, VR and the Internet of Things (IoT) - is the fusion of the physical world and virtual realities....
ChatGPT-3: What is it and how is it used?
ChatGPT has recently been making headlines and became the latest talk of Silicon Valley. OpenAI, co-founded by Elon Musk and investor Sam Altman and backed by $1 billion in funding from Microsoft, pro...