One of the key changes now affecting CRE is the impact of the cloud, Goodman Birtcher's Brandon Birtcher says, and it's going to transform the workplace because workers can be anywhere and still get to their files. The future will include the concept of the activity-based workplace, a jump from the open-space office system. Employees will organize by activity, when appropriate, with less emphasis on arbitrary divisions of space (by cubicles, to use one increasingly notorious example). http://www.allenmatkins.com