Mastering workplace design: Ensuring your space continues to meet evolving needs

Nov 6, 2024
Your workplace design is set. Now it’s time to ensure it can adapt as employee preferences, business goals, and industry trends change.
Tiffany Fowell
Content Marketing Manager

Welcome back to the final post in our Mastering workplace design series. So far, we’ve discussed how to secure buy-in for redesigning your space and how to create data-informed layouts. Now, we’ll focus on maintaining an adaptive workplace that keeps pace with employee preferences, business goals, and industry trends. Building an adaptive space is essential for maximizing the long-term ROI of your redesign and ensuring your workplace remains valuable as your organization grows and changes. Ready to wrap up this series? Let’s dive in.

Stay aligned with executives for ongoing success

The first step in maintaining an adaptive workplace is establishing regular check-ins with executives. 

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These touchpoints are also essential for updating execs on workplace wins. Data is key to demonstrating the impact of your efforts, so use it to communicate clear, measurable results. Set up a recurring analytics report that tracks key workplace metrics, such as employee attendance, room utilization, and desk booking trends. 

Pro tip: Wins to highlight to execs include improved employee satisfaction scores, higher space utilization, qualitative feedback on stronger collaboration, increased attendance, and consistent engagement in feedback channels.

Build a culture of feedback and adaptation

To enhance your workplace strategy, build on the regular review cadence discussed in our previous post by developing a standardized checklist for your quarterly or semi-annual audits. This checklist should include the following: 

  • Analyzing room booking data to identify utilization trends
  • Gathering employee satisfaction scores through surveys
  • Tracking workplace attendance numbers to spot emerging patterns 

Regularly reviewing these metrics provides insights into how well your space is adapting to the evolving needs of your organization. Additionally, establish a feedback loop to encourage ongoing employee input.

Pro tip: Alongside methods such as surveys and suggestion boxes, consider implementing workplace ticketing to streamline feedback collection and give folks multiple channels to provide input. 

Next, compare data from your audits against your internal benchmarks to determine if adjustments are necessary. For instance, if you find that only 45% of collaborative spaces are actively used, while your internal benchmark is 60%, you may consider redesigning underutilized areas or reassessing amenities to see if upgraded equipment or furniture can improve usage.

Involve the cross-functional tiger team you established in previous initiatives to regularly review workspace challenges. This ensures that you address both employee preferences and the evolving goals of your business—leading to more effective and responsive workspace solutions.

Assess insights and refine your space

Finally, leverage insights from your audits to prioritize improvements. To do this, identify impactful changes your team can make, such as reconfiguring underutilized spaces or investing in upgraded equipment that enhances employee experience and functionality. For example, repurpose a rarely-booked meeting room into a quiet co-working space akin to a library in response to employee feedback on wanting more options for focused work.

Looking ahead, build on the “future needs” checklist we discussed in the last post by prioritizing items based on their potential impact and urgency. Schedule regular strategy sessions with your tiger team to review these priorities and assess how each aligns with current business goals and employee needs. From there, you can create an action plan for the top priorities and outline specific timelines and responsibilities to keep the team focused and accountable.

Pro tip: To track progress over time, develop a simple workplace scorecard that captures the impact of each change. You can review this scorecard during each audit to see which improvements deliver the most value, which will help your team make design decisions with confidence.

We hope this series inspired you to keep evolving your workspace, whether you’re just beginning or midway through your redesign journey. If you want even more guidance, check out The workplace design guide to new deployments for more help making strategic decisions to shape your space.

Regular meetings with executives:

  • Help ensure your workplace strategy stays aligned with business goals
  • Keep you informed of any changes in direction
  • Confirm that any adjustments made to the workplace support strategic objectives

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AUTHOR BIO
Content Marketing Manager

Tiffany is a content crafter and writer at Envoy, where she helps workplace leaders build a workplace their people love. Outside of work, her passions include spending time with her greyhound, advocating for the Oxford comma, and enjoying really great tea.

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