According to the same report, Romanians work in some of the most cramped conditions in Europe, as one employee gets 11 square meters of working space.
By comparison, an employee in Prague works in an average 14.8 sqm, while employees in Warsaw get 12 sqm and those in Budapest get 12.6 sqm.
The total occupancy cost per workstation in Bucharest remained constant throughout 2011, compared to 2010, and DTZ estimates an increase of 5% per year until 2016. As such, Bucharest ranks fourth in Europe after Budapest, with a total cost of $3,940 per year.
“In the years to come we will see a refining of criteria for the selection of office spaces. The rent per square meter will become less relevant and added attention will be granted to details such as the usage degree and the volume of maintenance expenditure,” said Madalina Cojocaru, head of the office department with DTZ Echinox, Romania’s unit of international consultancy firm DTZ.
The DTZ report was compiled on 124 markets in 49 countries worldwide.