In a challenging, complex and competitive environment, business leaders everywhere are united by a common desire: to anticipate the future and act on it now.

At Steelcase a team of 43 WorkSpace Futures researchers, strategists and advanced applications experts spend a lot of time thinking about the future. Specifically, how to think about the future through a set of themes and by co-creating applications with leading organizations. It’s a rigorous approach of studying evolving issues and weak signals — what they call “embedded pockets in the future horizon that are likely to become more persistent over the next 10+ years.”

360 Magazine asked this team to share their perspective about the various patterns they see forming around work, space and information — the patterns and behaviors that leading organizations should be thinking about to better prepare their companies for tomorrow. They identified four macro themes shaping how we work.

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