The main goal of designing workspace is to encourage social interaction, create opportunities for employees to connect with each other, and promote a culture of inclusivity and diversity. How do you provide the people with a space that exudes an experiential quality, in addition to efficient and sustainable?

Join this workshop to tackle how to balance function and experience through design elements, tools, space utilization and customization. Benchmark the best approaches and outline a strategy to:

• Incorporate brand inspired elements to elevate identity and company values in the workspace
• Intentional design and access as an opportunity for increased diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Design for movement to improve well-being
• Create and apply adjustable and dynamic spaces that can be easily reconfigured for different purposes to encourage creativity
•  Make it feel like home, but better through art and environmental design, art and expression
• Enhance sustainability aspects to reduce your carbon footprint and reduce costs/meet ESG goals
• Infuse your space with work enabled technology
• Create metrics that will measure your success

Dive into this two-sided debate to hear perspectives on how to motivate employees to enjoy the workplace packed with best practices to cater to their needs. Unpack budget considerations, measurement for ROI and employee listening impacts this conversation.

·       What does your company consider a basic need vs an amenity?

·       Are amenities a draw or an eventual dissatisfier?

·       What are you doing to gather information on your employee needs?

·       Consider how involvement and impact leads in your decision making