Workspace
Workplace design should create ‘human-centric’ environments where staff feel inspired & valued through dynamic and re-invigorated Workspaces.
Many businesses are still unsure as to the future of their Real Estate demands and many have taken brave decisions pre-empting workforce behaviours. However, what we do know is that a post-pandemic office is likely to be less about rows of high-ratio traditional workstations versus a hybrid blend of interesting, agile, free-address touchdown spaces with a variety of supportive and collaborative ‘soft-work settings’ and smart technology to suit.
Less ‘built’ elements and more flexible, ‘soft-architecture’ solutions are being employed to cope with highly-flexible, mobile space demands that offer a variety of adaptable work settings depending on the task, team and need.
Combine this with sustainable solutions in specification and materiality and integrate meaningful biophilia and surely staff wellbeing should be sorted right?
Understanding your business, team occupancy & estimated workstation demand going forward will help to better inform how to make the necessary changes to your office environment to support both the business in an efficient way, your staff’s sense of belonging and longing for face-to-face collaboration.
It’s also about building strong businesses of the future by supporting the next generation through supportive, learning and mentoring environments and a sense of progression for more junior staff.
Re-invention and reinvigorating todays workforce (when ‘Virtual First’ has been the norm), is the challenge.
