Sonny Kalsi: Why Creative Spaces are The Future of Financial Firms
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The document discusses how creative office spaces are becoming more popular and important for companies, especially among millennials. Traditional office spaces with cubicles can stifle creativity and collaboration, while modern, flexible workspaces allow employees more freedom and opportunities to work together. The ideal office space incorporates both private and open areas to enhance productivity and make employees feel like they are part of a team rather than isolated. Creative office designs can analyze employee needs and maximize collaboration through strategic layouts.
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Sonny Kalsi: Why Creative Spaces are The Future of Financial Firms
- 1. BY SONNY KALSI Why Creative Spaces are THE FUTURE of Financial Firms (& all companies)
- 2. Theres something about concrete floors, unfinished ceilings, and unfurnished office spaces that excites millennials. My guess is that moving into these blank slates gives tenants the option to personalize and design their offices on their own terms.
- 3. 油After all, necessity is the mother of invention. Creativity begins from the moment they move into their new space, and this gives them a deeper sense of ownership.
- 4. THE PROBLEM WITH TRADITIONAL OFFICE SPACES
- 5. Lets face itmost offices are familiar and very boring. We work in a hedge maze of cubicles with sterilized hallways and strategically positioned meeting and break rooms. This has been the status quo for a long time, and few companies have dared step outside this comfort zone.
- 6. But times are changing. The modern tenant sees the potential in unfurnished spaces. Creative agencies and tech startups are leading the movement with increasingly elaborate and intentionally collaborative open spaces. Modern, customized spaces not only enhance creativity, they also encourage collaboration and increase productivity.
- 8. One question I hear all the time is, How do you intentionally design an office space to maximize collaboration and productivity? Well, with all the technology at our fingertips, enterprising executives can analyze workplace data, survey their employees, and identify the key needs of their workforce as well as the various ways in which these needs can be satisfied.
- 9. Traditional office settings stifle these types of interactions. Keeping every employee in an office or cubicle for the entire day seems like a good way to keep them focused and productive. But humans are social creatures, and they need the freedom to come together and work apart on their own terms.
- 10. Studies show that we might be spending more time with our colleagues at work than our families back home 1 in 4 Americans work 45 59 hours every week. So it makes sense that offices should make employees feel like theyre with family rather than in a library.
- 11. DESIGN THE PERFECT OFFICE SPACE FOR YOUR NEEDS
- 12. Detractors of modern office spaces may argue that noise, lack of privacy, and frequent distractions would lower productivity and stunt creativity. But the idea of a creative office isnt to necessarily have an open floor planits to have a flexible workspace that works for your company and your employees.
- 13. This means bringing the best of both traditional offices and modern, open offices into one space. A real estate developer may go to great lengths to create a one-size-fits-all design, but they could get it terribly wrong. The real solution is to take matters into your own hands and tell a developer how you want your office to be set up.
- 14. In order to make workspaces feel more like home, organizations should include a mix open spaces and individual workspaces. WeWork, for example, has a friendly lobby with amenities, various meeting rooms in different styles, and private phone booths for individual phone calls.
- 15. ITS TIME TO CHANGE THINGS UP
- 16. Is the traditional office setting dead? Of course not. There are still many who believe that its the best way to get work done. And it does work for a lot of organizations. But I think thats due mostly to familiarity, not optimization.油
- 17. We are creatures of habit, and we can get used to any workspaceeven an ineffective way. Yet, based on current trends, anyone can see that creative, flexible spaces will slowly replace cubicles and quiet hallways. And maybe thats for the best.
- 18. FOR MORE INFO PLEASE VISIT SonnyKalsi.com