These days where co-working spaces are coming through to enhance employees’ experience or environment at work, some people still like the familiarity of having their own desks and the old fashioned Post-It Notes reminding them of what is due tomorrow.
Co-working spaces are an undeniable improvement on offices of yesteryear. It promotes agility and flexibility that empowers employees to better manage their work and how they work. It also boosts morale and idea generation through interaction and collaboration.
However, digital design company, Portable, discovered in its Redesigning Work (2017) report that the ‘modern’ open plan workplace has its downside. They collated information and revealed that the informality of open plan office can contribute to low productivity and absenteeism.
This does not suggest that we should revert back to our traditional model. We should have a happy medium between old and new typologies. And that is what Unispace’s new Sydney headquarters is doing - combining the old and the new.
The global design firm is aware that workplaces can be subject to the idea of ‘different strokes to different folks’. Its offices are a mix of unallocated workspaces , a dedicated project room for collaboration and quiet rooms for working autonomously. It’s an effective design solution because not only does it give employees their right to choose how they work, it also gives them the right to adopt their own level of agility.
This might help to prevent the feeling of being swallowed by work. Either way, workplace designers still face many challenges, but there’s plenty of food for thought here and even more room for unbridled innovation.
Image and article source: https://www.indesignlive.com/the-ideas/hot-desking-still-hot?
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