In a world of work in constant evolution, in which the sharing economy continues to gain ground, offices are changing, and now, more than ever, work is taking on new meaning.

As many as five different generations are finding themselves interacting in the same workspace, each with their own, often temporary, needs and expectations. This form of multi-generational coexistence and sharing raises a crucial question: how can privacy and security be guaranteed in such open and dynamic spaces?

We need to broaden our horizons and expand the scenarios of office planning, bearing in mind how new dynamics of collaboration require increasing safeguards and levels of protection for both information and property.

A study by The Design Journal highlights how privacy is not only related to physical isolation, but that it also concerns the information and cognitive spheres, and above all security for objects and sensitive information.

To respond to this challenge, offices in the era of the sharing economy need to be designed to respond to ever higher standards of protection, with lockers, executive containers and archive solutions playing a crucial role in this respect.

The true strength of these systems lies in their modular nature, as they can be easily adapted to the changing needs of organisations, or for workers involved in temporary or short-term projects, so-called “gig workers”. This flexibility, seen as the ability to provide a scalable response to multiple approaches and demands in the working environment, represents a practical solution to the need for privacy and protection in a collective workspace, in line with the challenges that the sharing economy poses.