Arbetsplatsstrategi för verksamhetsanpassade kontor

Dimensioning the workplace correctly is a prerequisite for a feeling of crowding not to arise and for employees to easily find adequate areas for their activities. An undersized workplace creates frustration and dissatisfaction and an oversized one leads to less desired interactions and higher premises costs.

Regardless of whether the workplace is flexible and activity-based, or traditionally where employees have fixed desks, the key to a good physical design is to provide choice. Different workplaces are better or worse for different activities. But it is important to diversify based on the needs of the employees and create areas that are actually used.

Although good collaboration spaces create conditions for collaboration, we need to actively create structures to maintain good collaborations and trigger desirable behaviors. The physical environment has its part in triggering the right behaviors and organizational guidelines, routines and encouragement have another part.

People do not what is possible, but what is easiest. Workplaces need to be created to partially remove obstacles to and create proximity to desired behaviours. Consider placing surfaces that are important within a radius of 30 seconds from surfaces where employees usually stay and that it is easy to see whether the surface is available or not.

Participation is important for several reasons. Participation cannot only lead to commitment, a sense of ownership and predictability in the process. Through participation, the workplace strategist can also gather relevant data and design a strategy that is well-grounded in the needs of the business.