Another question for an Office Design Concept
Where are they going ? What are the space opportunities and constraints?
Mental weeding is my topic today. That relates to an office design concept how?
The creeping FUD, enters all projects. Fear, uncertainty and doubt. We need to pull the weeds out of our mind and out of our design concepts.
We need to ask more questions.
Were are they going? It is an internal move or an external move?
1. Are they relocating across the hall and the design concept needs to reflect the existing workings of the space.
Or
2. Are they relocating to another city, a new space and the organization is looking for new concept of working.
Design a workable space. ha - easier said than done.
I designed an office space using a new concept for an old and established company. The organization wanted a more open, more transparent relationship among the customer service staff. The president thought they needed to communicate more and more easily.
We choose a very open, low partitioned workspace. We previewed the concept with the whole office. We conducted a two hour presentation and town hall meeting, with the president speaking about how important it was to have good communication. He was an integral part of the change.
It all was great until ... the new concept (furniture) was installed and people moved into their new space.
– There was an up roar by the workers
– Within a year, high partitions were installed. The space was again, cluttered, private and not pretty. A breakdown in communication.
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– How did the creeping FUD change this concept and whose FUD was it?
– What is the solution?
