When you hire an employee, you create a job description that includes key responsibilities, as well as soft skills and desired personality traits.
What if you thought about your office space the same way?
What would be its core responsibilities and skills?
SPACE’s job description
Let’s look at the SPACE, Inc. office as an example.
If we were writing a job description for it, some core responsibilities might include:
- Efficiently convene people, while fostering collaboration and creativity
- Constantly innovate through research and development
- Help employees meet business and personal goals, to operate more efficiently
- Serve as salesperson and director of first impressions for the SPACE brand
And a few desired personality traits would be:
- Attractive to team members, encouraging them to want to come into the office
- Optimistic and energetic, through daylight and views
- Flexible and adaptable, providing varying spaces for any type of work
- Efficient and productive, through appropriate technology
Do you see how our office building—a physical space—starts to come alive?
By personifying our workspace, we’re able to adapt, customize, and perfect it—so it best serves our employees.
But, just as managers review employees’ performance on a regular basis, you should do the same for your office spaces. Is it continuing to meet the deliverables of its job? Does its job description need to change to fit your evolving team?
How does this approach help SPACE create workspaces that achieve client goals?
By taking the time to imagine your workspace’s job description, you’re narrowing your focus on the end user’s experience in a positive way.
In today’s world, you can expect a more frequent reconfiguration of your physical space. Even if you are completing a redesign that suits your team’s needs now, those needs may change in a year or two.
Thinking of your office as an employee is one way to ensure it doesn’t get stale.
To prepare for an unknown future, our best advice is to design in a sustainable and flexible way—through SPACE anew.
Through our SPACE anew sustainability exchange, our designers find creative ways to reimagine the furniture you already have, while adding stylish and functional elements to brighten up your workplace.
You’ll receive our high quality redesign with dramatically lower material costs, minimal disruption to your work, and zero percent waste. And your workspaces will be easier to deconstruct and reconstruct over time.
Let’s envision your office as an employee
A successful office space should unite individuals with different talents but a common goal. It must be specific enough for your business goals, but adaptable enough for your team to experiment and practice.
Our designers are experts at helping you identify the smartest office space configuration for today—while helping you prepare your resources for an unknown future.
Give us a call to begin exploring your new office space!
