Thinking outside the box
Creative work environments promote spontaneous meetings and innovative exchanges
Thinking outside the box
Creative work environments promote spontaneous meetings and innovative exchanges
New Work
Autor(ren)
Heiner Kolde
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CEO & Founder
Heiner Kolde
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CEO & Founder
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Office planning does not just mean rebuilding and modernizing the office. To ensure an optimal working environment, companies should ask themselves a few questions before redesigning. This guide therefore summarizes interesting facts about “office planning” for you in a short overview. In it, you will find answers to the most important questions that you should consider for professional planning.
Übersicht
Are you moving into a new property? Would you like to adapt your office space? Or has your way of working changed? A new architecture and interior design for the office makes sense in many cases. Modern office concepts help you to optimize working methods and Business goals to achieve. These include, for example:
What you should know before office planningBefore an interior designer or architect is commissioned with your office planning, the individual goals should be specifically defined, e.g.: How do you want to be perceived by your employees and customers in the future? How do you want to work together? What are the special features and challenges of your company?
Modern office design is no longer just about attractive furnishings. The office planner rather, has an eye on how the office relieves your work interexchange can promote and increase employee satisfaction. This makes your office a success factor in terms of efficiency, sustainability and interpersonal cooperation. It becomes a place for spontaneous contacts and inspiring conversations. It is becoming an attractive attraction — something that employees explicitly want from their company, such as newer surveys surrender.
A modern office is today thanks to digitization, agility as well as flexibility embossed. Digital and mobile tools support agile work; hybrid work, for example, can promote flexibility and self-determined work. This demonstrably increases employee satisfaction in the company and contributes to long-term retention.
That means: A modern office supports the success of a company by:
Agile exchange promotes innovation Altana Group's new working environment makes interactive work easy
How much space you need for desk workstations depends on the working model in your company: Will your employees continue to work in full or in part in Home office work? How much space should be available for exchange and collaboration? Thanks to desk sharing models, one desk per employee does not necessarily have to be available in all areas. As a result, existing areas can be used differently — for example as communal areas for Collaboration. In the Area calculation As a preparatory step for office planning, the individual requirements of the company are determined down to the square meter.
For the workplace health A number of factors play an important role — especially when opening the office or establishing desk sharing: Sound-absorbing elements are integrated for good acoustics; modern ventilation systems ensure a good indoor climate; daylight serves as the primary light source. For workplace health, architects and interior designers take into account applicable guidelines and standards when planning their office.
For larger construction projects, it is an advantage to carry out a feasibility study in advance. The office planner analyses the feasibility of the project by evaluating possible risks, costs and construction requirements. He makes recommendations for action and develops usage scenarios that serve as a basis for your decision-making.
The job of an office planner is to take a holistic view of guidelines as well as your goals and requirements. He provides you with strategic advice during planning and professionally supervises your renovation project step by step. This starts with the use of space: Using digital analysis tools, he determines the Space requirement for your new working environments, gives you an overview and advises you on the possible room layouts.
The interior designers and office planning architects translate the identified strategies and principles into a design concept. You consider all objectives when planning in order to ensure your success in the long term. Which New Work Modules that are right for you are developed individually for your company. This also includes an independent selection of the most suitable service providers, suppliers and partners for you. The New Work concept is then implemented directly.
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Before the start of the project, our architects and interior designers first carry out a professional needs analysis and a feasibility study for your project. Factors such as space requirements, framework conditions, strengths and weaknesses are considered. Our office planners thus analyse your individual basis and determine which changes can be implemented with the existing circumstances and which adjustments can and should be made.
Our consultants then take a look at the future in a strategy workshop and work together to develop your individual goals for your New Work project. These serve as the basis for a tailor-made strategy. For holistic success, our change consultants involve all employees in the project at an early stage in order, on the one hand, to be able to take individual work needs into account in good time and, on the other hand, to create acceptance for the change.
Based on the collected input and the jointly defined strategic goals for your new working environment, our New Work architects and interior designers develop a concrete plan for your new construction or renovation project. This is because tailor-made office planning promotes productivity and employee identification and retention in the long term. Modular office concepts ensure that your office can react variably to organizational changes in the future and optimize the use of your existing space.
For the Cologne headquarters of Gothaer Insurance Agile collaboration was the focus of the restructuring. The structures in the office were therefore opened and enriched with mobile elements. This allows teams to work together in flexible constellations; spontaneous exchange is facilitated.
As a result of their working methods, the CID fixed team offices planned. Here, the respective employees move closer together for efficient teamwork. Interactive central zones provide creative breaks and exchanges with others, which clear your mind for new ideas.
When rebuilding the Teekanne Headquarters In Düsseldorf, the focus was on bringing the company's history to life. Through the clear Brand Architecture The company's directive becomes noticeable. This promotes customer and employee loyalty and identification with the company.
Dipl.Ing. Interior Designer Heiner Kolde is managing director of the Düsseldorf-based interior design firm bkp and shareholder of bkp Hamburg. He has been an expert in office design and planning for over twenty years.
Aesthetic aspects undoubtedly play an important role in a renovation. Furnishing is a factor in making employees and customers feel comfortable in the company. However, don't lose sight of your goal — office furnishing should not be the primary focus of office planning. The new office plan is intended to help you work efficiently and in a future-oriented manner. We help you with this by providing strategic support throughout the entire process.
Many chefs spoil the porridge. It is therefore ideal to stick with a single office planner who will provide you with holistic support from strategy to planning to implementation. We manage everything from a single source to help you get started New Work to design smoothly and efficiently.
“New Work is much more than work-life balance. The new working environments are not only a feast for the interior design lovers among us, but also functional and innovative. Thanks to the multi-space office, there is even more room for teamwork, especially for innovation.”
Daniel Bruder
Head of Real Estate ManagementGWG Wuppertal
The design concept for GWG Wuppertal was created under the motto “At home with GWG.” Although every home is different, it always conveys a feeling of trust and security. This should be experienced in the gwg office over the next few years — for example with warm materials, refreshing green walls or pictures of employees who warmly welcome guests and colleagues. Common areas are also essential for good cooperation. In this way, the tea kitchens always form the heart of every floor.
“We are proud of our unique working environment, which makes our modern working routine fit for the future and at the same time allows us to take part in the history of teapots every day. We are even more proud that the teapot office concept was even awarded the German Design Award 2022. The Multispace helps us work together as a community in a flexible and uncomplicated way — true to our values — in partnership. The high-quality and unique equipment not only inspires and motivates us again and again through the clever integration of elements from the past that have made teapots successful and durable. This makes it even better to leave the home office behind, meet colleagues and work together!”
Sebastian Möbus
Head of Finance and Administration (CFO)Teekanne GmbHdusseldorf
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