The traditional office of the twentieth century's days. It is not profitable, is unsustainable and creates dissatisfied employees. The new model is being implemented in the world is far from the hierarchical idea that the boss has the biggest office.
Change corporate cultures, more open and horizontal. She touches a move offices and their leaders. For starters, because "40% of the seats are empty for most of the workday, while meeting areas are saturated," says Martin Lopez, commercial director of Ofita, Spanish company design and office furniture.
The traditional assignment of an employee, a post is outdated. "We had to sit in the same position for a way to work autonomously in terms of space and time, that puts the results over the control and the presence in the office," said Lopez.
Inefficiency are paying out of pocket entrepreneurs. In Spain 80% of offices are still traditional, something that will change in the next five years, says Francisco Vázquez Group President 3g office, multinational management consulting and corporate spaces.
In a flexible center ratios of 10 meters per employee, compared with 15 classic handled one. More space for the same number of people, more income, maintenance and consumption, which is clearly unsustainable needed.
It is because today any cafe or park is a potential workspace. "In a flexible employee's decision whether or not to come to the office and what time takes, always depending on your schedule and responsibilities Each individual chooses where and how to work;. Took office in tow," said Vazquez, who compares the new office with college bar. Thus, telework is essential in these centers resilient. "Employees are demanding a reconciliation of personal life and real and effective labor," says Fernando Carneros, Real Estate & Facilities Manager of Microsoft Spain, Portugal and Italy.
With these premises partly flexible office, where the number of shipments decreased 60%, the tables do not have owners and are free of papers. This approach requires between 15% and 30% less investment than traditional, calculated Alfonso de las Peñas, COO of Tétris, architecture division of Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL). Eight out of ten projects in 2014 for this consultant banish the hierarchical and pyramidal structure to give value to coworking (flexibility to work in an area with people of other profiles) and hotdesking (shift).
Open spaces, with rooms for teamwork, I Boxo phone booths for videoconferencing, enclaves of concentration spaces for personal retirement ... and playgrounds, cafes, indoor greenery (trees or orchards), gyms, environments relaxation and even DJs. This DNA could be flexible, capable of increasing in offices 20% over productivity.
They also improve health and wellbeing. Bad news for the Spaniards, who are among the most dissatisfied with their work environment, as the multinational Steelcase, specialized in office furniture for workspaces.
A hammock or a pool table are places more than adequate to hold an informal meeting. It is the philosophy that follows Google in Madrid. In plants 16 and 17 of the Torre Picasso there are islands with puff and sofas where 150 employees can gather around a coffee as they always have on hand a coffee corner, where jobs can be served free food and drink, says Javier Martín responsible for Human Resources for Spain, Portugal, Turkey and MENA (Middle East and North Africa). Meetings corset removed and transferred to the dining room, a multifunctional space where "you have the first meeting of the day while you eat breakfast." There is a single office, the general manager, who transforms into a meeting room when empty, says Martin, a regular at the phone box for videoconferencing. In a game of pool, foosball or table tennis can also have informal meetings or simply unwind. There massage, manicure and pedicure, workshops Japanese food and bread.
In the same vein are the offices of Red Bull in London, where the reception becomes a bar at night; and Facebook in Palo Alto (California), where there rink, have at JLL, which premieres corporate headquarters in Madrid Paseo de la Castellana. Open areas without distinctions between employees alternating with spaces for formal, informal meetings, quick meetings, brainstorming sessions, including a kitchen versatile. On the ground floor there is electric bicycles for workers.
The majors (Cepsa, BBVA ...) are peloton. The remodeling of the Madrid headquarters of Microsoft, designed by 3g office, has followed the Workplace Advantage of the company, which is based on freedom of employees to work in any position within the office or outside. In the building of Business Park Farm (Guernsey) savings on traditional positions allowed put a new customer area, releasing 3,000 of the 9,000 meters and meet the needs of collaborative spaces, concentration and assembly, says Carneros.
The Repsol Campus on Calle Méndez Álvaro de Madrid, remarkable because its buildings are connected by walkways. An approach of the architect Rafael de la Hoz to facilitate communication among its nearly 4,000 workers. There are 300 rooms for meetings and center. Also, changing rooms for those leaving to run around the campus, about 100 meters from the park Tierno Galván.
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