The CEO of IWG, the world’s largest workspace provider, says commuting will be “extinct” by 2040. Mark Dixon argues that future work patterns will make regular office travel far less common, and that younger generations will view past expectations of going to a workplace as unrealistic.
The reports frame Dixon’s comments as reflecting the direction of workplace change, including more flexible working and the growth of alternative office arrangements. Fortune and Yahoo News both highlight his remarks using a comparison to how today’s young people might judge older work norms. While the outlets focus on Dixon’s prediction about commuting, neither presents new, specific data in the provided text; the emphasis remains on his outlook for how work will evolve over the next decade and a half.
Dixon’s comments are presented as a forward-looking estimate rather than a confirmed forecast, and the articles do not detail how the company expects the shift to occur or which sectors would be affected most.
