The Experiential Office
A relatively new phenomenon, the “Experiential Office” has been a topic of discussion across interior designers, engineering and construction professionals, major consultancy firms and facility operators for a number of years now.
What Is An Experiential Office?
The experiential office considers the workplace a purposeful destination offering unique functional team collaboration and community experiences that cannot be realized when you are physically away from the office. These workplaces are not just created for employees but they are also for partners, customers and external collaborators that are valuable to the successful organization’s productivity and culture ecosystem, centering around employee well-being.
These workplaces provide pleasing and well designed facilities with attractive ideation spaces for learning, sharing, and team problem-solving while enveloping the participants in a healthy and supportive experience which furthers the mission of forward-looking companies whom have placed their employees at the centre of their business and its future success.
Is It All Just About Technology?
Experiential Offices are absolutely about more than just the technology, although in some spaces the tech may feature prominently.
That being said, an integrated design of spaces promoting corporate and brand identity, and an “easy to work together” personality, (if that’s your personality), is integral. Visitors can sense there are high functioning teams using these spaces.
Throughout an experiential office you will also find a variety of social areas that are flexible in the way they can service the needs of staff. This designed-intent to “flex” a space based on unique requirements of the employees is not easy to achieve – at least not by accident. But it can be accomplished with appropriate planning alongside an experienced team. At the end of the day, happy and healthy employees are both productive and loyal employees, and this affects the bottom line. Companies who have recognized this understand that an office that is designed and built to enable powerful team experiences are outperforming their competitors, and attracting the best talent at the same time.
What Kinds Of Businesses Require These Kinds Of Workspaces?
Organizations from within major technology and telecommunications firms, SaaS companies, global finance, the energy sector, and global management consulting, (to name a few), have embraced this approach to building and designing their facilities for the modernized workplace. This is just the start. More and more industries are joining the trend and part of the motivation is generated by the demand for talent. Companies competing for the same hard-to-find skilled workers are all-in on the Experiential Office concept.
Reach out to us whether you’re starting your journey or you’re a business, interior design firm, contractor or consultant already on your way!
As the saying goes, “It takes a village…”, and in the case of an Experiential Office you are going to require the services of a technology integration firm like CCOMM at some stage of your journey. Trust us when we speak from experience and say: “The earlier in the process the better”. The technology isn’t just the hardware that gets nailed on at the end after the paint is dry. It’s integral to the planned vision, the function, and ultimately the success of the workplace as a whole.
Contact CCOMM to kick off a conversation about experiential offices.
