As more businesses are striving to create eco friendly and stimulating offices, it has been suggested that in the future, rather than being sat on average office desk more of us will soon be working from home.

It is a commonly pointed out fact that nobody ever claims that they wished they’d spent more time in the office.  Now, full time white collar workers spend even less time in the office these days and far less time shackled to an office desk with a fixed line telephone and a dedicated stationery computer with snaking cables behind your desk.

Wireless networked Generation Y "millennials" are taking the pace and we are all already mobile. However, it is perhaps just business owners who have not realized it yet.

A recent independent survey set to office based workers across a range of industry sectors from banking to marketing, unveiled figures that suggest there is a huge efficiency gap in the average UK office and they productively use only 55 percent of their office space.

When this was looked at by region, it was seen that London’s key business districts alone wasted a staggering £10.5 billion of company money each year. So, in the near future are we looking at sitting in our kitchen chairs rather than our office chairs to complete our working day?

Gary Wheeler, Gensler's European director of workspace was a little more reserved about some important aspects of working within a communal office:

"Socialisation at work has become much more important. The water-cooler used to be looked at negatively. Not anymore. It's where you go to find people you trust to exchange knowledge. Cafes are the knowledge marketplace. Head-down work amounts to about half your time in the office, and it is shrinking compared to collaboration, which is growing, especially as more women enter the workplaces who want sharing, validation and feedback."