SCRIMPING and saving on the layout and dcor of offices could prove a false economy for British business, according to a new survey which focuses on managers' gripes about workspace environments.
The results show that British executives would be willing to make substantial sacrifices to get a better workplace.
Nearly half of the 600 surveyed said they would sacrifice benefits including £1,000 of their salary, their company car, private medical insurance or one week's annual leave, for better offices.
Whilst 45 per cent went so far as to say they would consider changing employer even if the role, salary and benefits in the new job were no better in return for an improved environment.
Sir Stuart Lipton, chairman of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (the government's architecture advisor) said: "In the future, I think we'll see office buildings becoming more like hotels more individual, more comfortable, with more personality and greater focus on work/life balance.
"It's the factory farming versus free-range argument."
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