WATERCOOLER CHAT: Workplace Culture Shift
Workplace culture is intangible, yet it touches every aspect of work. Shaped by an organization’s values, culture affects where, how, and when we work. As we adapt to a new workplace ecosystem, it’s critical to consider how culture influences space design.
Ecosystem Culture Types
The shifts we’ve seen in the last eight months indicate the office, as we knew it, will change. Instead, the trend is for people to work across an ecosystem that balances office, home, and third places. Yet the office will remain the hub for work and culture.
The way organizations adapt to the new ecosystem depends on the primary value driving their culture. In leveraging the Competing Values Framework™, we look at four culture types:
• Collaborate
• Create
• Control
• Compete
Workplaces need to be flexible. They need to enable changes as rapidly as people and organizations require. Each culture type approaches how, where, and when work is done differently. We’ll take a look at how the new workplace ecosystem will need to adapt to better support each culture type based on research by office furniture manufacturer Haworth.
