Office design is anything but superficial and these days, many companies are thinking about how their offices can make a bigger impact for their employees. The below trends are ways for businesses to create environments for social connection, creative collaboration, and personal focus and rejuvenation for years to come.
Support a multi-generational workforce
With the large generational gap in today’s workforce, it is important for offices to be designed for a multi-generational workforce. Diverse spaces support a diverse workforce.
Sistema Lounge System by Coalesse brings versatility and custom feeling to the popular Sistema, an already immensely flexible and appealing lounge system for the workplace. Through the new design capabilities, designers are not only able to create flexible work environments, but also inviting spaces that nomadic workers of all ages can sink into for collaboration and connection during the day. Sistema Lounge System by Coalesse embodies the soul of the new work seating: a place where anything is possible, a place that inspires enjoyment, not just work.
Bring in nature through design
Workers of all generations want to spend time in spaces that remind them of being connected to the world around them. Biophilic design is an office design trend here to stay.
Pictured above: Strokes and Shadows
The recently launched, Nanimarquina Collection for Coalesse was inspired by organic forms found in nature and in weavings’ natural geometry. The collection of six patterns (4 indoors, 2 outdoors) were designed to add warmth, texture, and residential comfort to the workplace.
Solve the Privacy Crisis
As more companies embrace open offices, many workers are experiencing a privacy crisis. While collaboration and social connection are both valuable experiences in the workplace, it is important for people to have privacy when they need to focus.
The Lagunitas Focus Nook sits in the open plan for conducting focused work – free from distraction, allowing for a moment of personal rejuvenation. With its high screens in a signature knit pattern or fabric construction, the Focus Nook offers enriched color and warm design to invite more expression in the open plan. Side and back screens available in fabric varieties or 17 knit colors and the work surface is available in veneer and laminate, with built in power modules.
Create Areas for Expression
Many companies are choosing to have a little more fun with their spaces by embracing comfort and showcasing their playful side. Fun office features invite people to take breaks and socialize during the workday.
The Potrero415 Table Tennis Edition, takes the popular Potrero415 base and tops it with a hardwood table tennis top. Project table conference table, breaktime table – this seriously playful surface does it all.