New structures, new needs, new work concepts: the office of the future is increasingly becoming a flexible space with collaborative intermediate zones, shared and flexible workstations.
This flexibility is necessary to give free rein to thoughts and ideas. A great deal of attention is now paid to the right balance between individual workspaces at home and in the office, and collaboration and relaxation zones.
Relaxation areas
Social zones
Agile meetings
Hybrid working
Concentration bubbles
Lounge
Flex offices
The office of tomorrow must provide an appropriate framework, where team members share opinions and strategies, inspire each other and create value for the company.
Collaboration is becoming a core business value. Characterized by clearly defined processes, interaction models and the use of adapted tools.
In this series of articles on the office of the future, we're going to look at the different workspaces at the service of the company's project:
- Relaxation areas
- Social" zones
- Agile meetings
- Hybrid work
- Concentration bubbles
- The lounge
- Flex offices
Relaxation areas: For work and leisure.
Why integrate relaxation areas into the office? Because well-being at work goes hand in hand with productivity and performance, many companies take this factor into account and do everything they can to ensure that their employees enjoy coming to work.
While there are many challenges to be met in terms of office design, one of the priority parameters to be considered concerns break times.
Our advice:
Quantity :
We are unable to maintain optimal concentration for 8 hours in a row.
So we need to take micro-breaks to reset the counter and get going again.
Quality :
Rest for better work. These micro-breaks must be qualitative. Taking a 30-second breather is not enough to recharge your batteries.
To be truly effective, these moments of decompression must enable employees to completely clear their heads and return to their tasks with a clear head.
Flexible solutions
When the need arises to take a break, it's not just a question of physical rest, but also of satisfying a need for interaction with colleagues. So it's a good idea to choose furniture adapted to this new type of space: comfortable seats, footstools, sofas, a ping-pong table, table soccer, etc.
This type of furniture promotes relaxation and improves team spirit. Perfect solutions for creating a real corporate mindset!
What are the results?
The benefits of creating a relaxation area in the office:
- Improve employee well-being by providing a protected, dedicated place to rest, take a break or clear the head.
- Stress management
- Facilitate good communication within the company by encouraging informal, strategic exchanges to help an organization move forward towards a common goal.
- Offer team-building activities in a dedicated room.
The office becomes the place of the "collaboration cycle", where mutual trust reigns, where teams come together to make contacts, express themselves, share ideas and thoughts, develop strategies, continue to learn and thus create added value for the company.
Well-being, attention, social interaction and brain efficiency are strictly linked to the environmental conditions around us. The space around us continually stimulates us in positive and negative ways. We have millions of sensors on our bodies that gather information that can be useful to us.
Our sensory system is a "juggler" that can keep us in balance physically, mentally and emotionally. It's up to us to put the layout at the service of this system.