Progressive Workspaces
Expanding Hybrid Into A Destination
- Flexible layouts with modular, reconfigurable capabilities quickly adapt to different team sizes and activities. This upgrade supports activity-based working, where employees choose settings for quiet focus, collaboration, or relaxation.
- Encourage in-person collaboration by prioritizing teamwork and human connection for employees who venture into the office less often. Creating inviting collaborative “welcome hubs,” lounge areas, and hybrid-ready meeting rooms equipped with advanced A/V technology will ensure equitable participation for all.
- Optimize space utilization by right-sizing the office footprint to align with actual usage patterns. Space utilization data helps inform design decisions, ensuring that square footage is used efficiently and effectively.
Progressive Workspaces
- Creative Amenities: In addition to a redesigned, organic workspace, technology companies like Google pioneered flexible work environments with built-in distractions. The Lego headquarters installed a slide. Dropbox features a complete exercise room. TBWA, an ad agency in New York, encourages employees to change their desks every day to diversify their workflow, increase cross-collaboration, and ensure that their staff interacts.
- Innovative Workspaces allow for a proactive approach to employee performance. Not only can they choose the space they want to work in at any time, but their schedules can become more flexible as well. For many companies, the typical 9-5 job is becoming obsolete. The entire idea of the progressive office is to cater to the employees and their instincts about work throughout the day.
- Community Spaces provide an open, creative collective vibe. Co-working places like WeWork have reimagined the way office spaces are used by catering to the needs of freelancers and remote workers. With a customizable setup allowing individuals to rent out their own space, these enterprises present a completely new business model for the modern-day office.
Intentional Design Case Study: EY India
Innovative Strategies
Strategists projected that by 2026, the office could become unrecognizable. Design strategies are now offering more agility, flexibility, and connectivity to support new ways of working, playing, and living. We are witnessing a great opportunity to reinvent not only the way we work but also the way businesses are marketed to both clients and employees.
Innovative office designers continue to take cues from retail design by creating technology-enabled, collaborative, and high-quality experiential workplaces:
- Shifting conference rooms into meeting lounges
- Team huddles around a coffee table space with an embedded interactive tablet
- Virtual and augmented reality technologies that support immersive collaboration with colleagues onsite or offsite
Innovative companies provide a wide variety of spaces that meet employee needs, including well-designed selections of technology-enabled quiet rooms, collaborative workspaces, short-term breakout spots, and social areas for accidental encounters. And don’t overlook third spaces that allow commuters to meet halfway for brainstorming! Genlser designed Morning Consult’s new Washington, DC headquarters in the vernacular of progressive workspaces to create a three-dimensional brand experience that evokes the energy and grit required to create powerful forms of change.
Exciting changes are ahead with dynamic office design leading the path of innovation. We want to hear your ideas! Our design team is standing by to help you navigate these changes with updated furnishings and office design strategies! We work with a range of vendors who can accommodate any style and budget. Schedule a consultation with our design team to brainstorm ideas or just learn what is available to you!
Photo of EY India by Noughts & Crosses LLP
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