Name: Workplace Futures, Part II
Start: 2020-10-27T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2020-10-27T13:00:00-04:00

December

13th

,

10:30pm

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11:30pm

EST

Workplace Futures, Part II

What’s next for the workplace? In the midst of a rapidly changing situation, we continue to believe that the workplace is a valuable tool for organizations. It enables face-to-face collaboration, supports different employee workstyles, and acts as an anchor for corporate culture. At the same time, we recognize that our designs for physical offices must pivot to accommodate new behaviors and protocols brought on by the pandemic.

Continuing where we left off in our Workplace Futures Part I, we’ll explore strategies to challenge what we think of as "the office." Join us in discussing paradigms and influences that could shape our work experiences in the near future.

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August

11th

,

12:00pm

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1:00pm

CDT

Workplace Futures, Part II

What’s next for the workplace? In the midst of a rapidly changing situation, we continue to believe that the workplace is a valuable tool for organizations. It enables face-to-face collaboration, supports different employee workstyles, and acts as an anchor for corporate culture. At the same time, we recognize that our designs for physical offices must pivot to accommodate new behaviors and protocols brought on by the pandemic.

Continuing where we left off in our Workplace Futures Part I, we’ll explore strategies to challenge what we think of as "the office." Join us in discussing paradigms and influences that could shape our work experiences in the near future.

Join the webinar

Workplace Futures, Part II

Thank you to everyone who was able to join the webinar. If you missed the event, the recording is available below. We've also created a summary document that is available for download.

Breathe Healthy

Once a perk, employee well-being is now an imperative. Key to ensuring a healthy workforce is mitigating the spread of airborne contaminants—and building mechanical systems play a vital role in this process. This session will explore strategies and best practices for improving indoor air quality.

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What you'll learn

Working remotely has left many of us feeling isolated. Our research shows that focus and solitary task efficiency are up, but feelings of connection and camaraderie are down. Because of this paradigm shift, we see the workplace evolving to become a destination: a beacon for an organization’s brand, a cultural anchor, a recruitment stage, and a hub that supports connection and mentorship. The shape, size, and feel of the workplace may change—but its role will remain vital to an organization's success.

How do we create connection, attraction, and hospitality in our office environments?
We don't subscribe to one solution for a remote, hybrid, dynamic, or anchored work model. We embrace the need to explore, vet, and iterate ideas to arrive at strategies and solutions tailored to you. In this session, we will build upon Workplace Futures Part I, proposing strategies to support workplace’s evolution.

Key takeaways:

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Understand how a fluid planning model that supports user effectiveness, autonomy, and choice can help you embrace radical inclusion.

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Learn how our user personas and survey tool can help you assess your employees’ work styles, patterns, and preferences.

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Draw best practices from retail environments to adapt workplaces to an experiential, consumer-facing, community-centered model.

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Explore a day in the life of the “next normal” worker to understand how shifts in engagement, collaboration, and focus.

Speakers

Julie Gauthier

Moderator
Associate Principal

Houston Studio

Perkins&Will

Brigitte Preston

Moderator
Regional Design Director
Dallas Studio
Perkins&Will

Mariana Giraldo

Planning and Strategies Consultant
New York Studio

Perkins&Will

Mijail Gutierrez

Design Principal
London Studio
Perkins&Will

Kelly McEachern

Associate
Austin Studio

Perkins&Will

Ibrahim Ibrahim

Managing Director
Portland Design

If you missed the Sound Off! webcast you can watch the recording here.

Well at Work Series

We hope you'll join us as we explore this topic and others in future events. Each session will engage experts in short information presentations with examples of how the strategies can be implemented, explored or questioned. Emails will be sent when registration opens.

Breathe Healthy

Once a perk, employee well-being is now an imperative. Key to ensuring a healthy workforce is mitigating the spread of airborne contaminants—and building mechanical systems play a vital role in this process. This session explored strategies and best practices for improving indoor air quality. If you missed the Breathe Healthy webcast you can watch the recording here.

Sound Off

This session explored the importance of acoustics as we re-occupy our office spaces, and solutions to consider for creating an environment that will allow for collaboration with fellow colleagues - on and off technology platforms – as well as offer quiet spaces for focus work. If you missed the Sound Off! webcast you can watch the recording here.

Can I Touch That Surface?

In the midst of a global pandemic, our concerns about cleanliness are at an all-time high. Many are aware of approved cleaning protocols, but new questions arise daily about antimicrobial products and UV light sterilization. As we become more aware of viral transmission, our instincts might encourage us to explore every strategy and product that will disinfect the surfaces we touch every day. This session identified best practices for ensuring that our shared office surfaces do not become a source for viral transmission, while encouraging caution in rapid adoption of untested products and procedures. If you missed the webcast you can watch the recording here.

Workplace Futures

This session explored new research, ideas, and strategies for our “next normal” workplace environments from across Perkins&Will’s studios. What’s next for the workplace? New ideas are proposed every day as our understanding of the pandemic shifts and expectations evolve. In the midst of a rapidly changing situation, we continue to believe that the workplace is a valuable tool for organizations. It provides a much-needed place to collaborate face-to-face, supports different employee workstyles, and acts as an anchor for corporate culture. But we recognize that our designs for physical offices must pivot to accommodate new behaviors and protocols brought on by the 2020 global health pandemic. If you missed the webcast you can watch the recording here.

Register Now