Transparent corporate culture
At the teapot in Düsseldorf, the interior design reflects the corporate identity
Transparent corporate culture
At the teapot in Düsseldorf, the interior design reflects the corporate identity
New Work
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Marie Seliger
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Marie Seliger
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Management team
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Few attendance times, lots of space: The last few months have changed our working environments. But even before that, offices were only working at 65% capacity due to illness, holidays and external appointments. At two days Home office During the week, workload even drops to just 40% — a realistic scenario, because employees have learned to appreciate the benefits of working from home. At the same time, many are looking forward to being able to go back to the office regularly soon. A hybrid working model Home office and face-to-face time seem to be establishing themselves in the long term. We reveal how companies can now equip and furnish their offices to meet the new challenges.
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The 1:1 exchange with business partners or colleagues working from home then takes place, for example, in functional microarchitectures such as telephone boxes, which we use at our partner, for example New network integrated into the open multispace. Collaboration, on the other hand, requires free, interactive space that offers space for creative workshops, for example in the new working environments of BYK Chemie. Especially with an increasing proportion of working from home, a division of focus work within one's own four walls and teamwork in the office is likely — and that is when open, multifunctional working environments are the best prerequisite for networked cooperation.
Companies are now asking themselves whether they have their office space should reduce or optimize. According to a current study Only suitable for a few companies. The number of people who want to use the existing space in a different way is significantly higher, primarily to create more space for exchange and collaboration.
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To the perfect work environment To create for each individual company, a series of discussions and workshops are essential before spatial planning and design: This is where the individual wishes, challenges and opportunities that managers and employees see for the new working environment are identified. Because with the move to new working environments, working together in the office is also changing. That is why, at the beginning, the corporate culture developed and is the focus of the entire redesign.
Work where others take a break Casual work zones in drinking hall style unleash creative ideas at Gothaer in Cologne
In addition to individual requirements, there are various aspects that apply when switching to the open Multispace always play a role. This includes room acoustics, for example. It must be right so that efficient work is possible. For this purpose, various acoustically effective surfaces are integrated. For example, a perforated metal ceiling at BYK Chemie. Or even curtains and mobile partitions, from which the employees of Gothaer benefit in Cologne. They not only have a sound-absorbing function, but also help to zone rooms and flexibly adjust the area in just a few simple steps.
The option of spatial modification and multiple use will be even more important for companies in the future, as working methods and requirements are changing ever more rapidly. The desk sharing model is also being increasingly used for this purpose: Modern working environments such as those of the software company CID or from renault are already completely designed for desk sharing. Employees always sit where they have the best environment for their current tasks — a model that enables reasonable use of office space in times of home office and remote work.
To avoid creating a feeling of an anonymized workplace, places for spontaneous exchange and identity-creating elements in the office are so important. For the Gothaer In Cologne, this is a coffee point in the typical “Veedel” Büdchen look. At the teapot In Düsseldorf at the newly created company headquarters, people meet in between at the Tea Point, whose wall graphics on the inside are made of historic tea tins.
In other places, too, the teapot shows how to make company history spatially tangible: quotes from the founders adorn the walls, large-format images on glass tell the history of the family business, you sit at a table in the form of the founding year 1882. It is precisely these elements that make the office an attractive place to work, retain employees and offer them an additional reason to like coming by.
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