TWEP - Episode 10 - Workplace Design Fundamentals

The Workplace Experience

Today we will talking about the importance of workplace design, how the specific workplace strategy is fundamental to provide the workplace design framework, to deliver a workplace that is functional and sustainable for the business for the next 5-10 year.
The area of workplace design has changed dramatically over the last decade. There are two different schools of thought in the workplace design community.
As we come out of the COVID19 lockdowns and people begin to return to work, wherever that maybe clients will be looking for their spaces to be functional they need to be more than just a variety of desks types, pretty painted walls, expensive acoustic lamp shades over a collaborative desk between workstation clusters.
Other influences on workplace design thinking includes social distancing requirements as a consequence of the 2020 pandemic. COVID has also introduced a influencers that will force change – such as - choice of materials used in workplace designs.
It will also influence size of workstations, if you are using desks under 1800 long x 750 wide, you will never meet the 1per4m2 for social distancing during peak pandemic periods. .
I like to suggest that new workplace design should follow a lego block principal to be able to provide flexibility in the design to accommodate changes in the demands from the business.
The design scope should now definitely include other requirements such as AV and collaborative needs, both at an individual and group level.
Organisations have learnt over time often the hard way, if your architect or designer does not have the expertise to build and recommend your workplace strategy that will provide the foundations of your workplace design, it could be costly mistake that you will need to live with for the next 5 to 10 years.
Its all about team work.