WATERCOOLER CHAT: Destination Workplaces
Destination workplaces enable discussion and empower employees who strive to make a difference within the company while encouraging them to continue promoting work culture from within. Many of these employees eventually become influencers who help shape the future image of the company itself.
We have been quietly conditioned in the past few years by the ethos created by restaurants and resorts that curate emotional responses, experiences, and memories that take us beyond the expected. This trend can now be seen in forward-thinking workspace design.
Changes in volume, color, texture, lighting, and even enclosure can all influence the kind of energy and spacial dynamics of a workplace environment. Anticipating and mapping these dynamics can provide a diverse palette of options for the inhabitants of today’s office spaces to enhance the work experience. Making sure that when stress levels get high, places to de-stress and find relaxation are always within reach — without needing to leave the office or go on a vacation to find it.
With the right hospitality-inspired design strategy in place, destination workplaces won’t just upscale your office — it will be a more sought-after workplace than before and a much-welcomed reprieve from remote work.
The move towards adopting various work styles helps sharpen business decisions and provides employees with more options, which can play an important role in restoring some of the autonomy lost in open-plan work environments. Certain interactions and the flexibility of team structure increase collaboration among employees in these open hybrid workspaces.
