About this report -- The myth of infinite bandwidth: facing up to employees realities and limits -- International context: living and working -- Where to work? Office push and pull: common employee predicaments -- More livable lives: more productive operations -- Data sources.

The aim of the report is to alert Human Resources and Corporate Real Estate professionals to the tensions employees face in managing their commitments to work and the rest of life – challenges that are magnified when long travel time is involved. On the face of it, centralised workplace ‘palaces’ might seem to cater for employees’ every conceivable need, but the critical requirement that they often frustrate is easy travel between work and home. Importantly, the significant negatives of having all your workspace in one big building or campus, no matter how gleaming, also represent costs to employers, through their impacts on staff recruitment, retention and motivation – and hence on wellbeing and productivity.