- Benefits to both employees and company culture
- Affects employee satisfaction, employee productivity, increases employee retention
-  Increased collaboration
- good first impression
- Less distraction, more motivation, opportunities, optimization of tech

Benefits of Optimized Office Design

- Best layouts have balance
- Combo of open space and seclusiveness for private conversations

Open Spaces

- Should not take away from good workplace design
- Tech should be accessible but not distract 
- Enhancing work, making small tasks easier but maintaining employee work instead of complete automation

Tech Needs

- Emphasis of having employees at all levels engage with each other
- Impressions on new hires
- Clients and customers will see these spaces
- Opportunity to host events
- Important beyond work hours

Meeting/ Collaboration Spaces

- Office more attractive to employees by adding amenities
- Break rooms to socialize and relax
- Positive employee culture
- Makes them feel at home and comfortable
- Displaying photos, information about after-work events

In-Office Kitchens

- Employees put high emphasis on office layout and design
- Having a dedicated meeting space is important
- Some employees value community in design of office
- Design has impact on corporate culture

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On-site Workplace design focuses specifically on On-site work settings in which the business has more control over design aspects. Businesses have control over the physical layout of the work environment and as such are able to make the workspace efficient. The professionalism of the workplace helps create a sense of uniformity, which promotes a sense of efficiency through grouping. Professionalism consists of office attire and uniform workspace. A Uniform workspace allows for equality in resources allocated toward employees (something that may not be the case with remote work). Working on-site allows for more face-to-face interaction, creating more transparent interaction with what employees are contributing and better communication in regards to what needs to be completed.
 


On-site Workplace design

NYC Office Suites, 2019. Why Aesthetics and Office Layout Are So Important When Designing a Modern Office. NYC Office Suites.

Why Aesthetics and Office Layout Are So Important When Designing a Modern Office

A paper designed to explore the effects of identity signaling on both individual and group productivity. This experimental approach sorted participants into teams to examine the role ingroup versus outgroup spaces played on the completion of simple, team-oriented tasks. 

Spaces that Signal Identity Improve Workplace Productivity

Those within an educational system are among some of the most stress-triggering jobs out there. It is important to understand what triggers stress within education as well as how to address and manage this to provide a welcoming, positive environment for their students.

Stress in the Workplace

• New employee interactions

• Task-related interactions

• Private interactions

Onsite Social Interactions

“Employee engagement is a desirable condition, has an organizational purpose, and connotes involvement, commitment, passion, enthusiasm, focused effort, and energy”

Onsite Employee Engagement

On-site work is when a majority of work produced by the company/business is done by employees at a business-owned building. On-site work is normally viewed as more rigid than remote work but still may be able to offer some types of flexibility. On-site work is generally viewed as work in an office-type setting in which employees work in cubicles and/or offices.   

On-site Work

"The extent to which an employee experiences feeling fulfilled and having his or her needs met in both work and non-work facets of life"

Onsite Work-life Balance

An article that presents evidence of occupants' perception of their work environment in five different office types (Solo, Duo, 2-4, 5-8 and 8Plus offices). Used a dataset of 5000 respondents in 67 commercial and institutional office buildings on their perception of comfort and productivity in their office environments.

Does the Number of Occupants in an Office Influence Individual Perceptions of Comfort and Productivity?

On-site Aesthetics and Office Layout

1. Social Relations 
2. Attention Focus 
3. Stress Reduction 
4. Photobiology 

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