Workplace Design in 2025

Much as in 2024, the workplace is continuing to evolve in 2025. Demographic changes as a new generation enter the workforce and the baby boomers continue to retire, technology changes brought on by new advancements and the years of work from home culture, and an evolving attitude in our work environment and work/life balance are just a few of the factors driving the shifts in the office.

What can we as designers do to accommodate these changes and continue to make the office flexible for the future? Here are the design trends of 2025 that seek to answer those questions.

Personalized Spaces
Employees continue to return to the office, either full time or in a hybrid setting, after years of working from the comfort of their own home. Coming back to an office that is cold and sterile can make that transition harder and less appealing to employees that have adapted to the home office.
Trends we’ve seen in the past, such as “resimercial” furniture, finishes, and amenities, continue to grow in 2025. Blurring the lines between work and living spaces, resimercial design helps foster connection to the workplace.

Another way to personalize a space it to lean into color. Gone are the days of gray on gray offices, color is an easy way to create an inspiring environment and can foster emotional connections to the workplace.

Employee Wellness
It’s a fact-we spend most of our waking hours at work whether we like it or not. Our workplace should enhance our wellness while we’re there, not detract from it.
Mental wellbeing can be cared for by providing quiet spaces to allow for personal calls, meetings, and respite as well as an alternate work space to the often loud and distracting open office. Natural light and biophilic elements also boost our mental health and wellbeing.

Physical wellbeing in also a critical component in employee happiness. Fitness spaces, meditation rooms, and other wellness rooms continue to rise in popularity in 2025 office design.

Multi-purpose Spaces
Another change in recent years that continues to grow is multi-purpose or flexible offices spaces. From furniture that can serve as a lounge area for a coffee break or a touch down spot for a quick meeting to a small meeting room that can be utilized for groups or video calls, many spaces are doing double duty in 2025.

Supporting these flexible workdays is growing technology integration. This can be as simple as easy access power supplies in tables and seating or as in depth as occupancy sensors and smart building controls. Digital signage can also be a function update, as it is easily changed as the function or routine of a day changes.

Overall, 2025 design trends will continue to focus on the employee and their experience in the workplace. Supporting people and improving their day to day lives leads to happier employees and therefore, better retention and overall performance.