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The face of the modern-day workplace has gone through a lot of changes over the last ten years. In the past, the office was a place for employees working the traditional 9-5. The offices were joined to landlines, fax machines and large desktop computer with dial-up internet connections. The modern office space has been through extreme modifications with the advent of emerging technologies, materials and a change of priorities for both the organizations and employees.

In many ways, 2018 could be as pivotal a year in the design of offices as 1964 -- the year Robert Propst invented the cubicle. Trends that have been set in motion in office design have reached points of inflection while trends in the greater culture are coming to bear in how we configure work spaces. Here are the trends that we expect to come into play in a big way in 2018.

With 2015 ending and 2016 beginning, the commercial real estate world is going to be changing. Whether you are completely revitalizing your company's portfolio or keeping everything at the status quo, odds are that you will find at least one office trend from this list impacting your operation in the coming year.

As the workplace continues to absorb both the impacts of big data and the unique preferences of Generation Y, office space keeps changing. While some of the new year's trend will be new, you will also see an office trend or two that continues from the previous year. Here are the four that we're closely tracking.