Workplace Design: Where spatial intelligence meets organisational psychology

In a post-pandemic and post-presenteeism world where increasing numbers of employees prefer remote working to daily commuting, many employers are now seeking to operationalise the new normal and give employees greater control over both the location of their work as well as hours worked. Whilst corporate occupiers will need to prioritise flexibility, well-being and more sustainable work-life balances for those employees seeking to limit their days spent at the office, they will likely also need to consider what type of new amenities to introduce to create a compelling offer capable of pulling employees back! Will be interesting to see range of ambition as corp…

Is your organisation undertaking ideation exercises to strengthen the design briefing process & identify novel ways to improve employee productivity ? How should the building design briefing process be reimagined in a new world of remote and distributed work ? Interested to compare ideas on ways to assess space, workplace and occupancy needs.

Interested to learn community feedback on use of AI tools / applications to improve effectiveness of Workplace Design decisions. Extract below from Anthony Slumbers Blog entitle "Cities, AI and the Metaverse? Risks, Opportunities, Actions" [The Blog - Antony Slumbers] Dynamic workplace layouts: AI can analyse data on how employees interact with their physical environment, identifying patterns and trends that can inform the design of adaptive, flexible workplace layouts. This can help create office spaces that foster collaboration, creativity, and productivity while still providing areas for privacy and focused work when needed. Has anyone developed or …

Recently spent 6+ months working on the fitout design for a new metro workplace. Brief was explicit from the start. Our people told us in workshops, in surveys, in the focus groups we ran across every business unit that they wanted more collaboration space, more informal touchdown areas and a workplace that felt less like endless rows of desks and more like a place to attract talent and draw employees back with great choice of workplace settings. We listened. We reduced individual workstations by 30 percent. We introduced generous collaborative zones on every floor, writable walls, flexible furniture, the full palette of contemporary workplace design thinking and we also…