Presenting a report by BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland
What is a workplace strategy?
Carefully designed and well thought-out offices should be an investment for a business, as opposed to a cost. Naturally, creating this type of space is a challenging process; however, when approached properly, it will pay off in the end by delivering an office that increases work efficiency, facilitates cooperation between teams, helps improve communication and transfer of knowledge, and frequently serves as a tool for solving business problems. It moreover helps implement business strategies and various projects
Małgorzata Fibakiewicz, Head of Office Agency, BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland
Involving work teams in workplace creation should take place on several levels. Space design is more than a plain technical challenge. It additionally requires dealing with specific social processes within the organization. The two dimensions, i.e. technical and organizational on the one hand and social on the other one, are equally important. There is a certain paradox prevailing on the market where employees are expected to be engaged, entrepreneurial and innovative, while at the same time they are excluded from the workplace creation process. The question is: how are people supposed to feel responsible for and relate to their workplace when they have no impact whatsoever on what the place is like?
Karolina Dudek, the brain behind and author of the report, Workplace Strategy Manager, BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland
An office like a good app
Designing a clever and efficient office is like designing a good app. Let us approach office design in the same way as we would approach a digital product’s interface, and we will see that both should have the capacity for change, while at the same time remaining cohesive when new operations are introduced. The characteristic feature of our work is dynamic business scalability. When ongoing projects grow and when new ones appear, new teams are created, while it sometimes happens that some people are involved in more than just one project. Thus, it is of strategic importance for us to ensure effective communication and work organization as regards individual teams, as well as to develop and preserve suitable organizational culture
Szymon Boniecki, co-founder of Monterail
Where do we start...
An office in a skyscraper, boutique townhouse or an industrial space? What about the location, neighbours, available facilities and, crucially, price? Answers to the above questions will be impacting on the organization for at least a few years
Małgorzata Fibakiewicz, Head of Office Agency, BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland