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Re-imagining Your Office Space
It's time for a makeover. The purpose of the office has changed for everyone, according to a recent
PWC survey. The top 4 reasons employees and employers need the office are below.
Top Reasons for Employees
1. Collaborate
2. Access equipment or document securely
3. Meet with clients or colleagues
4. Training and career development
Top Reasons for Employers
1. Increase employee productivity
2. Provide space to meet with clients
3. Enable employees to collaborate effectively
4. Enable company culture
This means the traditional working model where every employee has their own desk is now moving
towards activity-based or team/event-based working.
Activity-Based Space
Activity-based working is a flexible practice that offers employees different workspaces and resources
to fit the type of work they are doing. Goodbye assigned seating, hello free address. This would mean
reworking your office space to include break-out areas, huddle rooms for heads down teamwork, large
café type spaces for creativity and collaboration, neighborhoods of workstations, etc.
Team-/Event-Based Space
Team- or Event-based working is similar to activity-based working but with more emphasis on larger
spaces for teamwork or events. In these cases, most individual work would be done remotely while
collaboration and meetings would happen in the office.
So, what type of working space does your office need?
The best way to make sure you are providing the right spaces and resources to the right people is
knowing exactly what they need.
But how?
WITH DATA.
By implementing a workplace reservation system that manages your workspaces and resources, you
can see which spaces get used most often and by whom. Having that information means you can
create and optimize a hybrid workplace that works for everyone.
