At Kinnarps, we are not merely in the business of providing furniture for agile working environments. We understand the bigger issues at play and are trusted by companies across Europe to help navigate them towards a smarter, more worker-centric workspace.
“Kinnarps knowledge and expertise on agile working, alongside their design capability helped us utilise the furniture we had whilst developing our space with new breakout areas”
Tim Borrie, Head of Space and Property Strategy (Guy’s & St Thomas Hospitals)
Our research shows that office personal workstations are vacant an alarming 40% of the time. That means a lot of workplaces across the UK should be asking themselves the question: ‘Can we reduce our footprint for the same workforce?’
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For some companies, steady growth has meant a gradual squeeze on space and facilities. It might be time to review the needs of your growing workforce and find a workplace that works for today and tomorrow.
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Too many offices remain wedded to the ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to office furniture design – one that usually favours personal workstations over other spaces that facilitate contemplation and collaboration.
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Imagine you are 80 employees in a traditional setting. It probably looks something like this…
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This workplace setting is suffering from a high level of vacant personal workstations and a lack of collaborative working spaces (including meeting rooms). It lacks the flexibility that most employees need from their working environment.
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This workplace design allows for the same number of people to work comfortably within a reduced footprint, providing a mix of personal and flexible workstations along with greater collaboration spaces and meeting rooms.
This workplace design can accommodate a 68% increase in the workforce within the same floor plan, creating a more agile environment that combines personal and flexible workstations with collaboration spaces and meeting rooms.
This workplace design uses the same floor plan but offers a more appealing working environment – with less personal workstations, more variety of work settings and flexibility to accomodate visiting mobile/homeworking staff.
If you're considering a move towards an agile working environment we would like to introduce our Next Office Concept™ - it's a way of utilising research, workshops and rich data to define the ideal office for you and your staff. It might show a more agile working environment is the answer.
With 57% of employees confident their current workplace enables them to work productively, is there a danger a move to agile working ends up only really helping the other 43%? The solution is to really know your workers and what they need…
How do you ensure the company’s leaders – not just the one with budget authority – are truly on board with the change to agile working? It's a question of getting the Board on board, so the rest of the company can come too.
The fear of wasting time, money and effort on an agile white elephant prevents many organisations from even exploring activity based working. If your project is to be a success, you have to be ready to really change…
The big question facing any move to agile working is: ‘How do you know it’s going to work?’ Our new Agile Working Pilot Pack aims to help you answer that question – allowing you to trial agile working in your workplace, without breaking the bank…
Tim Borrie, Head of Space and Property Strategy (Guy’s & St Thomas' Hospitals)
“We decided to capture the utilisation of our current office space and discovered that, as an organisation, we used only 50% of the space we had.”
“Initially there was a worry that a step towards agile working may not ideally fit with every department due to their specific daily tasks. We also knew there may be a resistance to change, but we understood the benefit of agile working and the influence it could have within the organisation.
Whilst the project was ongoing, we found the opinion amongst our workforce was that the engagement piece could have begun earlier in the process and that we were relying on certain teams to filter down the benefits of agile working. Kinnarps helped ease this process through their variety of services from Design to their Next Office® consultation.”
“Kinnarps knowledge and expertise on agile working, alongside their design capability, helped us utilise the furniture we had whilst developing our space with new breakout areas.
If other organisations were considering a move to agile working, my best advice is to suggest they engage in the culture piece and consultation at an early stage.”
Tim Pinder, Chief Executive (Peaks & Plains Housing Trust)
“As owners of an attractive Grade A office building, understanding genuine occupancy levels lead us to the conclusion that we could work within a smaller footprint and rent more space out. We were also aware that our office accommodation overhead cost benchmarked unfavourably with our peers.”
“Of course, with change comes concern. Some of the staff were anxious when it came to going ‘agile’ as they were worried the number of desks may not be sufficient for teams to remain in one area or that storage would not be available. As a result of a robust process of consultation, planning and research the shift to agile working was completed without any serious challenges or surprises.
Kinnarps added to the pain free process through thoughtful specification of great quality and great looking furniture, providing a different character for different settings.”
“Within the first year of refurbishment, we have let 2/3 of the previous space we occupied and this has paid for the refit. The end goal of this agile project has definitely been achieved. What’s more, our staff are utilising the new space and people are choosing the right workstation for the right task, no one has a fixed desk.”