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An observation is obvious: it is around environmental issues that the transformation of the city must be articulated. Remember that the shift is to be taken now with carbon footprint reduction objectives to which all producers in the city must contribute. And we are all at our level of contributors. The city must be made by all and for all in a logic of convergence while the differences often remain strong among the various stakeholders.

Occupational psychologists and the new forms of office.

The health crisis we are going through highlights certain desires of the French. The confinements have revealed urban ills and territorial actors are wondering about the conditions of life in the city and the end of metropolization. One question is emerging: the well-being of city dwellers. What do we mean by well-being? How can we define it? How can we identify the territorial components of well-being?

After eliminating individual offices, a number of large users are once again discovering spaces that resemble... individual offices in their work environments. The ESSEC Workplace Management Chair's My Post-Containment Office III survey (of 1,868 people, April 2021), in fact, indicates that 63% of respondents would prefer to work in a closed office, either individual or shared. So, what about the individual office?

It is not an incantation. It is not a mantra. It is a necessity. Diversity is one of the new values infusing the real estate industry. Beyond the "diversity and inclusion" indexes and the marketing effects that cleverly dress up annual reports, this necessity is very high on the list of priority concerns of today's and tomorrow's managers. Why is this? For three reasons: performance, creativity and innovation.

Remote appeared in the 1950s with the work of Norbert Wiener on cybernetics. In the 1970s, the term "telework" was coined by Jack Nilles to refer to work carried out partly at a distance from the office. It is then a question of substituting means of telecommunications for transport.