The workspace blueprint

Your ideal workspace blueprint

The results of the workspace analysis process feed into your ideal workspace blueprint, which defines the ideal amount and combination of spaces, work settings, tools, technologies and furniture for your organisation. This blueprint highlights where your current workspace falls short, and what needs to be improved. It also helps you prioritise your needs, using a performance v importance matrix to highlight the biggest gaps between your current and ideal workspace.

This information is then used as a benchmark for evaluating different workspace options – including whether your current workspace has the right amount of space and attributes to be effectively remodelled, or whether your business will be best served by moving to a new space.

Building analysis

Your chosen workspace consultants can take this process to the next stage, helping you to build comparative evaluations of different options, including remodelling your existing space, and benchmarking the possibilities of other office spaces on the market. In some cases, they may also be able to help you negotiate with landlords and ask the right questions when reviewing alternative spaces.

Ultimately, the decision whether to refurbish or relocate will depend on a variety of factors, including financial drivers, the specific spatial and operational needs of your organisation and your people, the importance of location to your business and brand, not to mention the impact different locations will have on attracting and retaining talent. But working with experienced workplace consultants will ensure you make the decision armed with the best information and insight available.

Summary

Choosing to move premises, or to remodel your existing space, isn’t one that you make that frequently. You need to make sure you make the best possible decision, as you will have to live with the outcome for years to come.

Experienced workspace consultants can help you quantify how the changes happening in your business affect your workspace needs, and identify the ideal combination of space, technologies and work settings to optimally support your people, processes and business goals.

The resulting workspace blueprint can be used to help you compare your existing space with potential new spaces, inform negotiations with your landlord, and act as a brief for professional partners, from property agents to interior design and fit-out partners.

Whether you’re growing, downsizing, restructuring or adopting innovative new ways of working, your workspace is one of your most important assets, and taking the time to make sure it optimally supports your people and the work they do will ensure it drives productivity and performance, both today and in years to come.

At Office Workspace, we have over 40 years of experience helping clients create their ideal workspace. From workspace consultancy, through to design and build, furniture, technology and ongoing support, as well as helping businesses find the right space for their needs and negotiating with landlords.

We can help you start on the journey

At Office Workspace, our goal is to enable your people to achieve more – to be more productive, more connected, more engaged, more creative. To work better.

We create workspaces that deliver on these promises, bringing together the latest insights in workspace psychology, evidence-based design, innovative workspace technology and proven change management techniques, to help drive improved people performance.

Modern workspace strategies are all about people. By providing choices in where, when, and how people work, we empower them to find the best way to achieve their goals, enabling them to flex and adapt to the opportunities and challenges they face.

Successful businesses recognise the value that a future-ready, people-centric workspace can bring. At Office Workspace, we can help guide you and your people to a better way of working.

To find out more about how we can help your business to perform better, get in touch today on +44 (0) 20 8309 0000 or email hello@officeworkspace.com.