Modular or multi-purpose furniture doesn’t just make good financial sense.

In the UK, an estimated 1.2 million office desks and 1.8 million office chairs end up in landfill each year, while U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) figures puts overall annual furniture waste at almost 10 million tonnes.

“A more sustainable approach to office design is long overdue and flexible furniture solutions not designated for just one task, can avoid these issues, easily fulfilling multiple purposes over their lifetime - or even during a single working day,” says Surgis.

The highly adaptable office space of Fintech company Wise took this one step further, not only upcycling and re-upholstering existing furniture, but implementing forward thinking materials, like ROOM booths which are made of 1,088 recycled plastic bottles.

“As a win-win situation for the environment, the employee and budget conscious enterprises with ambitious decarbonization targets, modular furniture is something that more organizations will be looking at closely as long-term hybrid work strategies are put in place,” Surgis concludes.