CEO of the world’s largest workspace provider says commuting will be extinct by 2040—and your kids will think it’s ‘mad stuff’ professionals once did

Return-to-office mandates are just a blip; Setting your alarm before sunrise and standing shoulder-to-shoulder on a packed train, just to sit at a desk for eight hours, is going to be a relic of the past. And it’s going to be extinct much sooner than you probably expect. 

According to Mark Dixon, CEO of IWG, the world’s largest workspace provider, commuting could be extinct within the next 15 years. Gen Alpha will be so used to pulling out their phones and clocking into work from anywhere convenient, that they’ll find the very idea of commuting into an office as ancient as riding a horse to work, or writing by candlelight before electricity existed.

“In the future, you’re going to explain to your kids that you used to commute,” Dixon explained to Fortune, while adding they’ll think it’s “mad stuff” that bosses once asked their workers to “travel 100 miles to sit down and use a computer.” 

“They’ll say, why did you do that? Because they won’t understand that people traveled long distances to use a piece of equipment somewhere else. It’s going to change a lot—the workplace of the future is everywhere. And........

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