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The 15 hottest office trends of 2019

Allana Akhtar   

The 15 hottest office trends of 2019
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  • Some hot trends include sustainability programs, gender-inclusive bathrooms, and corporate retreats.
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Millennials have redefined what work looks like - and what workplaces should offer their employees.

As office norms like a rigid 9-to-5 schedule and drug screenings become a thing of the past, a new report from FitSmallBusiness looked at the 15 new and hot workplace trends that millennials love.

FitSmallBusiness, a digital business publication, evaluated third-party data sources, including media reporting, the research firm Gartner, and the Society for Human Resource Management, to analyze which trends had grown the most among Fortune 500 companies. The company released a list of the 15 hottest trends exclusively for Business Insider.

Some hot trends include sustainability programs, gender-inclusive bathrooms, and corporate retreats.

Read more: I toured the surprisingly bonkers LinkedIn offices in the Empire State Building, which has a 'speakeasy' bar hidden behind a wall of rotary phones. Here's what it was like.

"What once seemed to serve the average employee - including a nine-to-five schedule, open floor plans, and unlimited PTO - has been replaced by a new set of trends that lean heavily on developing technology and a generational focus on wellness," the report states.

Here are the top 15 workplace trends millennials love in 2019:

Generation Z from Business Insider Intelligence

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