Teamwork makes the dream work
The bkp office in Düsseldorf stands for innovation, creative spirit and interactive teamwork
Teamwork makes the dream work
The bkp office in Düsseldorf stands for innovation, creative spirit and interactive teamwork
New Work
Autor(ren)
Marie Seliger
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Management team
Marie Seliger
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Management team
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Hybrid work models and digital meetings have recently become established rapidly. Yet the office remains a meeting place. Because what brings us together when working in our own four walls and digitally The most missing, is direct contact with our colleagues.
But how must companies change their working environments so that they remain an attractive “home port” for employees in the future? The architects and interior designers from bkp spoke about this with DAL Bautec Construction Management and Consulting GmbH in the online event “New Work, New Life, New Balance.” The results of the questions that were asked to the numerous participants during the event prove what we have already been able to observe in exchange with our partners: flexible use of space, new places for collaboration and a tangible corporate culture are becoming even more important and are also the biggest challenges.
The majority of participants answered the question “Where do you prefer to work?” with: alternating between Home office and office. This will also be possible in the future: Although the home office requirement has already expired, most companies still offer the option of switching between working from home and being in person — the 3:2 model, with three days of office and two working from home, is in vogue. Or, to go one step further: Hybrid work models are no longer a bonus offer from particularly employee-friendly employers, but part of the “Next Normal.”
Working methods have shifted as a result: While focus work prefers to take place at home, we go to the office to exchange ideas with colleagues — in workshops, small groups, but also to contact to stay. In company premises, we are not desk workers, but team workers. That is why the requirements for working environments are also changing: Open, multifunctional spaces in which collaboration can take place have become enormously important — because 80% of ideas in companies are created in exchange with each other.
At the same time, companies must ask themselves how they exist Using space efficiently Can. If they are redesigned in favor of more exchange and communication, there is still a need for places of retreat and individual work for those who like to come to the office for this as well. With desk sharing, various work situations can be created on smaller areas. This is cost-effective and offers companies and employees a high level of flexibility.
And that will be required in the future anyway in order to be able to react to change. In the last five years alone, technical development has progressed as fast as in the previous 50 years. Flexible structures are essential in order to maintain progress from a spatial perspective over the next few years. In modular systems such as Gothaer in Cologne Thanks to sliding elements, rooms can be separated and combined at any time — depending on what the work situation requires at the moment.
New work in the countryside Flexible work zones at Gothaer ensure a change of scene
Another challenge for employers is the development of a modern corporate culture that Can be experienced in working environments will. This was confirmed by more than 60% of event participants. A clear, “real” mission and vision is becoming the most important “cultural asset” of companies. Because both customers and employees want authenticity. Communicating this through corporate culture must always be considered when designing new working environments. That is why we develop in our 360° approach First, in joint workshops, an idea of how a company would like to be perceived. From this, we derive further processes, structures and identity-creating elements, which we then implement spatially.
At the Teapot in Düsseldorf In close cooperation with decision makers, we were able to create a working environment that brings the long history of the traditional company to life — in wall quotes from the founders or in large-scale motifs on glass. A real antithesis to the fast, digital world, which creates identification and reminds employees when they enter the company why they work right here and not in another, freely interchangeable location.
It is always important for us to take on different perspectives — both from those who can draw on extensive experience in their job and from those who have just gained a foothold or have yet to find their way into the company. That is why we are constantly in touch with company employees as well as with universities and students who have their very own expectations of working environments. Our credo is: We work with people for people and work with them to create their individual Working environments of tomorrow.
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