What elements of workplace design can help increase productivity and efficiency?
Workplace design should enable clients to do their jobs easily, remain flexible so end users can adjust the space according to their particular work style and be adaptable so that it can work well into the future. Clients don’t think about productivity in terms of number of papers filed or words typed per minute; they think, “How can you help make my processes easier?” and “How can you affect my bottom line?” Productivity can be measured in a number of ways. It can be measured in terms of how many quality employees a company can attract and retain. Clearly, a company that constantly is forced to interview, hire and train new employees is not being efficient. The British GCHQ’s new circular offices were designed to make workers accessible to one another and to increase information-sharing capabilities. Productivity also is measured in terms of information shared. In London, for example, most employees work in an open-plan environment, and even in law firms, it’s common to find shared of
