Encourage Movement
⦁ Encouraging movement aims to avoid ‘nesting’, where staff remain in their assigned areas of the office, often creating a silo. When encouraging employees to utilise and pass through more of the office space, interactions and chance meetings with others in the office become more common.
Strategically placing different departments or teams can promote cross – disciplinary interactions and discourage people feeling isolated in one specific part of the office. When this idea of moving between zones or floors within an office building is executed properly then you can create a diverse and interesting landscape.
⦁ By pulling people away from their designated areas or where people typically work, these workspaces become more effective and allow people to focus on that specific task. Positioning certain amenities and spaces further away than what they’re used to incentivises people to move through the office and improves collaboration and socialising. This ultimately helps to enhance productivity and the quality of interactions, making time in the office more purposeful.
