The flexibility that comes with the future of work is often viewed as an employee-driven perk, but it doesn’t have to be.

Opening the future-of-work panel at Inspirefest, Silicon Republic managing editor Elaine Burke said that flexibility has traditionally been employee-led.

However, Deutsche Bank Service Centre CEO Sheamus Causer believes this will change in the future of work for a couple of key reasons.

“The first one is cost. When you think of real-estate cost, if you’re paying for a building or a floor space and you have a nine-to-five workforce, that effectively means for 16 hours a day, you’re paying for air.”

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Words by Jenny Darmody