Experts are saying that the conventional office has been mutating into a less formal situation for a number of years now and they have gone on to say that the workplace will eventually become the place where an office desk is a thing of the past and office furniture will evolve completely making way for a less formal cable free work space.

The author of a number of successful number one best selling business books, Charles Handy, famously dislikes conventional offices. The writer feels office blocks share too many common elements to factories and don’t play a good part in making employees feel creative and free thinking.

Charles Handy was recently talking at a Worktech conference which had a number of facility managers who owned such office block type buildings.  He addressed the audience by saying these types of establishments "dull the human spirit." He went on to quote St Augustine: "Living a lie is the greatest sin" – he added that he felt these types of offices force their employees to live a lie of conformity.

"Organisations do need a hub, a place to call home. But [in future] it will look much more like a club," said Handy, “a place for employees to meet and converse rather than sit at an office desk. One day I suspect, metaphorically, the tower will come tumbling down," he said of present-day offices, adding that the first office he worked in has been turned into residential space: "Maybe [one day] Canary Wharf will be."