Tech companies are having to radically rethink their real estate plans as their industry undergoes unprecedented change.
In its 2026 Technology Real Estate Trends to Watch report, JLL says tech leaders are having to deal with a convergence of major trends — such as artificial intelligence (AI) supremacy races, workforce uncertainty and new infrastructure demands — which have left them at an inflection point.
The report says demarcation lines between software and hardware producers are disappearing as traditional software, social media and cloud companies are expanding into semiconductors and hardware to deliver better user experiences and greater efficiencies. This major change is leading to the emergence of “new workspaces within workplaces”, with lab and research and development spaces being integrated with office space to enable collaboration between developers and engineers. Office spaces will also be converted to labs and other infrastructure to s
