Before setting up your workplace’s whole feel — its decor, its layout, even its location — it’s crucial to figure out just what sort of environment you want to give your workers in the first place. Keeping employees focused, flexible, relaxed, or any other mode they work their best in is one of the first steps to making sure an office plan works for you, and there are more factors that go into this merging of social structure and visual design than one might think. Here are a few ideas and practices we can help you realize.
Determine how you want your workplace to reflect on your business. Values, goals, and future plans should all tie into the way your workspace is planned out. It always helps to reiterate and visualize your vision to help keep your company’s philosophy in mind, and when that ties into the ways you can emphasize and promote that vision in a space’s layout and aesthetic, both the office environment and your business’s goals should feel stronger by complementing each other. Aura’s Discovery Session will get all the information from you that we need to make your work environment uniquely suited for your business.
Give employees a say. After all, they’ll be spending much of their time there — they’ll know better than anybody about what particular needs will make their workday both more productively efficient and less needlessly stressful. A place where people work doesn’t have to feel like a “workplace” when it can center the fact that it’s a space where people come together to collaborate on ideas — ideally in an environment they can actually feel welcome in and enjoy. Aura offers a Discovery Session that brainstorms a number of different possibilities for style, moods, and features that will bring out the best in everyone who works there.
Make it eclectic. If your business thrives on a collaborative spirit, it also helps to make individual needs feel met, too: some employees might enjoy a game room, while others would appreciate nap rooms. Doing the most to give each workplace a chance to accommodate as many employee needs as possible is part of Aura’s holistic and empathetic approach to design.
Plan ahead for growth. Every business hopes to expand at some point or another, whether it’s adding a few new positions or opening up an entirely new location. Aura can help you envision a philosophical and stylistic footprint that can grow along with your business and adapt to changing times, accounting for the ways expansion and additional hiring can change employee dynamics.
At Aura, our interior designers and office planners have generations of experience in integrating your company’s unique culture into your office environments. Check out our approach to designing your space from the floor up with our Design Journey plan.
