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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Joanna Partridge

‘It felt like a big call’: the property boss who bet workers would return to the office … and won

Simon Carter, chief executive of British Land, in his Broadgate office
Simon Carter: ‘We could see that businesses were still taking space’. Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The Observer

A winter garden filled with plants, dedicated areas to suit both extrovert and introvert workers, a “social lobby”, and a cycle ramp into the building: this is the office of the future.

Well, at least a version of it – as envisioned by property ­developer British Land and to be made ­reality within a vast new project at 2 Finsbury Avenue, or “2FA”, in the City of London. With the world of work upended by the pandemic, the bells-and-whistles development is designed to offer companies every­thing to keep the modern white-­collar worker satisfied in the office.

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