How do CRE teams energize to innovate and reinvent the organization workplace for future success?

When the question was asked:

How to CRE teams energize to innovate and reinvent the organization workplace for future success?

IFMA’s recent Delphi Survey indicated that a team needed to be combined with HR, corporate workplace strategists and facilities, and the senior business leaders so that they could work together to prepare the workplace environment for the employees return to work.

Refer to the Covid-19 Cycle chart to help identify where CRE experts started early in the pandemic phases and how they need to plan for the future.

The stages have progressed from ATTITUDE, to REACTIVE, to REINVENTING to create the new Workplace Normal.

And now, a bridge needs to be built to provide a future-fit Resiliency Plan. This will be a parallel path to a more resilient and adaptive future state.

HOK provided some good ideas on Workplace Strategy that I believe are achievable and sustainable for Occupiers.

1.     Think more about moving people and less about moving office elements 

The modular office concept is old thinking. Companies should design fixed work areas for specific purposes—meeting, brainstorming, training, private conversation, etc.— and let employees move around according to their needs. It’s healthier and more practical. 

2.     Personalize the office experience in the spirit of the smart car  

With fewer employees in the office, companies can offer those who do come in a more custom, high-end work experience that is tuned to their personal preferences and workstyles.

3.     When thinking hybrid work, embrace the best of each and leave the rest

As we rethink enabling employees to work from the office, the home, the car, or somewhere in between, be sure to leverage the best of those scenarios. In designing your new hybrid work reality, realize that this creates the opportunity to leave behind for good the things that never served us very well in the first place.