How Can Space And Leaders Make Hybrid Work Effective?
Hybrid working has easily become the biggest trend following the pandemic. Hybrid work combines the flexibility of working from the comfort of your home, or at a coffee shop while also getting the in office experience during the week.
Great communication skills and clear objectives for the week are some of the key ways to making hybrid work successful. The hybrid work model can be incredibly beneficial for your team and our workspace experts can give you some of their best advice below.
Office design should support employees who prefer to work in office while providing collaborative spaces which support the connection of in office teams with remote workers through technology.
Leaders should support remote-friendly policies, i.e. promoting flexible schedules, furniture/equipment stipends for home office set-ups etc.
By realizing that there needs to be flexibility but to have spaces that support the constantly changing workplace.
Create as many different areas for collaboration as possible. These vignettes can vary from the number of seats per area to the type of furniture and levels of privacy, both visually and acoustically. Provide single-seat comfortable spaces for people to work away from their station or office.
The utilization of proper space planning in this new post pandemic office environment along with the promotion of collaboration can certainly have a positive affect.
Having multiple areas for connecting with coworkers in important. People want to come to the office to feel connected to each other, for mentoring, to discuss strategy and trouble shoot with each other. These tasks build trust and add to company culture. I think it’s really important to make the office an extension of home, and a place where people are free to work throughout the office and take mini breaks to connect with each other.
Space should help leaders to engage with their employees, especially so younger employees see the value of learning from the more experienced ones. When people are in the office it is important that the space allows for collaboration.
