Workplace Consulting: Strategic support for efficient and attractive work environments

Do you know this? 

You come to the office and many desks are empty, the meeting room hasn't had guests for a long time, and even the coffee machine hums away in standby mode.

Welcome to a new era of our offices. 

Admittedly, a very bleak picture of our current working world, and yet a situation that most companies are surely familiar with. Meetings take place remotely, teams collaborate in hybrid settings, and many employees only go to the office when absolutely necessary or when the boss demands it. 

At the latest with the Corona pandemic, the office was no longer the only place for our work and now has to re-apply to us. Many companies have recognized this and are responding. 

The challenge lies mainly in the different expectations: Employees demand the possibility of home office, flexibility, and self-determination. Companies, on the other hand, have a strong interest in people meeting physically. It's about spontaneous exchange, innovation, creativity, and a connecting feeling of belonging. 

But many approaches lead to nowhere, do not achieve the desired effects, and employees still prefer to stay at home. No wonder. Offices are often built past the employees and their needs. 

In a workplace consulting approach, the first step is not about the layout, new furniture, or appropriate color and material concepts, but about understanding the organization in its entirety. This includes work processes, roles, the lived culture, leadership style, and future challenges. At the same time, a change of perspective is important. This involves developing a shared future vision of the future work environment. Without this step, you are merely translating the "now" into a new layout. And that would be a missed opportunity.

As part of workshops and interviews, employees and managers are actively involved to gain a holistic understanding of requirements, work practices, and cultural conditions.

With the collected data, a concept can then be developed that covers individual needs and best supports the organization in future challenges.

In our working world today, New Work connects everything that is new or at least appears new. In the context of office concepts, this is often associated with home office, online meetings, or the Google office.

With a professional workplace consulting approach, it is possible to bring clarity to the topics, clear up misunderstandings, and above all, put the topic of New Work into one's own entrepreneurial context.

What suits us? How can we balance between physical presence and required flexibility?

When dealing with these questions, it's irrelevant whether the new is called New Work, Future of Work, the future of the office, or the future of work. What is much more important is that a company deals with its own future viability. 

Professional workplace consulting not only helps to avoid frustration among employees and minimize misjudgments, but also helps to generate the greatest possible spatial and entrepreneurial added value. 

A workplace consulting company like days with us supports organizations in stepping out of their comfort zone and benefiting from experiences across a wide range of projects. At the same time, external expertise creates higher acceptance among employees. 

In our projects, people and their needs are at the center. With our unique workplace consulting approach, we work together with employees and managers to determine which work zones are needed and what spatial requirements exist.

Before we dive into the project, we assist you with strategic questions. This includes assessing the current situation and whether your future needs can be met in the current or a potential rental space. For this, we not only develop test fits or feasibility studies of the office spaces but also provide cost estimates for a well-informed decision.

Based on individual entrepreneurial needs, we design a work environment that creates maximum added value while supporting strategic corporate goals. This results in a physical work environment that is not built past the needs of the employees and yet meets a high standard of design and aesthetics.

A new working world can also arise in existing premises. The solutions are as individual as the organizations themselves. It's just about the right adjustments to create added value. This requires fewer tables and office chairs, but more areas for spontaneous encounters, spaces for collaboration, or retreats for focused work. We precisely question the existing concept and elevate your working world to the next level.

After the project is before the project. In order to sustainably anchor the new workplace concept in the organization, it is essential to change learned working methods and break habits. For this purpose, we accompany you in the form of professional and individual change management. Only then can a workplace strategy contribute sustainably to company success.

New Work, Future of work, New Work. Many terms, many opinions, many possibilities. With a team of experts in this field, we want to understand these topics holistically and put them into context. We not only incorporate this knowledge into our projects, but we are also happy to share it with others. If these topics are exciting for your next event, we are happy to be available with new trends and ideas as speakers.

With our workplace consulting approach, we support SMEs, small and large municipalities, national and international financial institutions as well as globally active corporations. We can also incorporate this wide-ranging know-how into future projects.

This creates work environments that make company culture tangible, promote collaboration, increase productivity, and enhance the physical presence of employees.

»The competent advice and extensive know-how have significantly supported us on our way to New Work. The insights from the workshops with management and user representatives were implemented in the architects' design. As a result, a headquarters was created that enables agile working through various zones. The result excites not only our employees but also our guests and has sustainably changed our working world.»

Holger Shyre, Head of Real Estate & Facility Management, Energy 360°

Collaboration with days with us extends far beyond the mere design of a working environment. To do this, we start by conducting a thorough analysis in the form of workshops and interviews to understand work processes, company culture, and the strategic direction of management. 

However, we not only accompany the design and implementation but also actively support employees with professional change management during this transformation. Only then does the space deliver the desired effect.

After moving into the new space, the changes are clearly noticeable. On the one hand, the new working environment reflects the needs and requirements of the employees. On the other hand, an office concept emerges that makes the company's culture tangible and spatially reflects the organization's strategic direction.