03 As it was Copyright © 2022 Accenture. All rights reserved. 41 Workplace design hasn’t yet caught up to new workforce expectations. Instead of continuing to optimize what exists, companies should completely reimagine work, addressing with intention both tangibles and intangibles. Intangibles should be treated as must-haves rather than nice-to-haves, and leadership will need to be 100% on board. Simply making it a policy won’t work—they need to be confident in their strategy and put in the work to make it effective. + futuristic, surrealism, movie scene, diverse, photo realism, diverse subject, optimistic, 8k ada, aspect ratio 2:3, algorithm version 4 We’re seeing most organizations taking either a non-negotiable, directive approach or a more democratic one. The first means setting out leadership’s expectations and enforcing them, regardless of the risk that employees will walk. The second involves including employees in the process, understanding their current life priorities and what they want from their working experience, then finding a compromise between that and business objectives. In our view, neither of these will truly work. What’s next