FUTURE OF WORK 2025
On 27 February 2025, Davenport Campbell and UNSW partnered to host our annual Next Generation Workshop with students and graduates.
As designers, strategists and workplace enthusiasts, we’re passionate about using design to support companies and individuals to thrive. It’s easy to make predictions based on our own expertise and experiences, but how often do we sit with young team members and ask:
What kind of environment would support you to do your best work? And better yet, do you see value in a physical workplace?
We paired aspiring Interior Architecture students with young team members from a diverse cohort of our clients; some of Australia’s largest companies spanning the finance, construction, telecommunications, global tech and retail industries.
The workshop encouraged deep thinking from the minds of these young individuals and emerging leaders, and their valuable insights have been carefully distilled into our Insights Report.
“This generation has a refreshing confidence to ask for, rather than to hope for, balance and ethics in all things.”
- Workshop Facilitator
The key insights from the workshop have been summarised below, and you can read the report here.
1. WHY SO MANY RULES?
Booking and belonging
Have we stifled belonging and trust with too many hybrid working rules?
2. Work/life bargaining
Flexibility as currency
If wellness and sustainability are expected, what holds the most value for the next generation?
3. ON BRAND
Values and brand alignment
The importance of personal branding for a social media conscious generation.
Do you fit their brand?
4. PERKS OF THE JOB
The enduring value of ‘free stuff’
Why freebies and benefits matter more than ever.
5. Spaces to decompress
The missing sanctuary
Building spaces for decompression in a hyper-connected world.
To hear more about how these insights can influence your workplace, get in touch.
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