Public Sector Workspaces - Office | Work environments for success and wellbeing

HERE’S TO SMARTER WORKING

With budgets under pressure and services under scrutiny, your workspace will need to work harder and be smarter.

Our depth of experience, along with our place on the new CCS framework, make us the public sector’s perfect partner for workspace change.

DESIGNING SMARTER WORKSPACES...

Understanding what makes a space work is one thing. Understanding how public sector organisations work is quite another. Our expertise in both allows us to deliver on projects, whilst seamlessly navigating common complexities.

...FROM THE GROUND UP

Ergonomic furniture is built around the needs of the human body. An ergonomic workspace is built around the needs of the workforce. It's designed for diversity, taking into account the needs of every single employee. Design has to be driven by consultation - which is exactly why we developed our Next Office™ process.

WHO WE HAVE WORKED WITH

LOCAL COUNCILS

In the context of the One Public Estate programme and a wider requirement for local government managers to do more with less, making the best use of your estate is crucial. Our expertise in delivering agile workplaces – from initial investigation to final fit-out – has already saved local councils across the UK millions of pounds and thousands of square feet of floor space.

PRISON & PROBATION

We understand the need to create welcoming and rewarding environments for Probation Services – an environment that will help staff flourish in high-pressure roles and deliver excellent outcomes for service users. We have recently delivered this for London’s CRC, working in partnership with MTC Novo.

BLUE LIGHT SERVICES

Implementing agile working practices in Blue Light Services can generate sizeable cost and space savings and significantly improve productivity, as we have shown through our work with both Kent and Hampshire police and fire services. Facilitating improved employee collaboration through effective workplace design is at the heart of what we do.

THIRD SECTOR

Expenditure in the charity sector is closely scrutinised with every pound spent accounted for. In this context, office refurbishment can be perceived as an unnecessary extravagance. However, our experience working with some of the largest charities in the UK shows that the efficiency savings made through effective workplace planning easily justify the cost of fit-out.

WHAT A SMARTER WORKSPACE LOOKS LIKE

The workspace is the key facilitator of smarter working. We believe it’s about these three pillars working in harmony:

SPACE

Your environment shapes not only how people work, but also how well they work. We can design around diverse needs to create a space that supports all approaches - allowing people to be at their most effective, regardless of the task or preferred work style.

PEOPLE

Humans are social animals - and that holds just as true in a work environment as anywhere else. Creating a space that allows people to interact in productive, positive ways - whether they're on task or off - has a huge impact on organisational culture. And few things drive performance like a healthy culture.

TECHNOLOGY

As the devices at our disposal become ever smarter, our dependence on them increases. That means a space can't truly enable productivity unless it also supports the tools that deliver it. Our designs consider how teams can make the most of their tech - when and where they need it.

WHY CHOOSE KINNARPS

#1

WE SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE OF WORKPLACE CHANGE

New furniture alone is rarely the answer – we know that. We take a holistic view of spaces, people and technology, helping to create workplaces where employees can thrive.

#2

WE TAKE A SCANDINAVIAN APPROACH TO DESIGN

Ergonomically-driven. Aesthetically-pleasing. Reliably-made. We adopt a Scandinavian approach to furniture design, an ethos that has seen us find favour across the public sector.

#3

WE ARE SERIOUS ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY

The need to protect the environment has never been so pressing. From the materials we use to the way we pack and transport them, we have a proud heritage of as a leader in sustainability.

#4

WE TAKE CHARGE OF THE WHOLE CHAIN

No outsourcing or sub-contracting – we take responsibility for the entire value chain: from development, procurement and production, to delivery and installation.

#5

WE ARE ALSO ON THE CCS FRAMEWORK

Kinnarps is an approved furniture supplier on framework RM6119 (lot 8). This allows any public sector body to procure our furniture in a compliant, low-risk way.

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