Meaningful work is something that we all want and deserve – but did you know there’s actually a science to it? As this Fast Company article outlines, on a recent episode of The New Way We Work, NeuroLeadership Institute CEO David Rock details his company’s SCARF assessment, which has been used by many companies to retain employees. SCARF stands for Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness and Fairness – and it was created by scientists based on what intrinsically motivates us.
We love this, because it speaks to what is truly important when it comes to keeping employees engaged in our evolving hybrid workspaces: understanding their behaviors and tailoring their experience to meet what the data demonstrates they need.
We’re just putting the finishing touches on our next paper, which offers a fresh new way to explore office transformation projects through space utilization and behavioral analysis. We’re really excited about it – and we know you will be too! In the meantime, if you haven’t downloaded our prequel piece, The Science of Indoor Space, find it here.
Evolving Office Space: What Chiefs and Directors of HR & FInance Should Know
For regular readers of this newsletter, it’s no surprise that we are mildly obsessed with how to make the best use of office space. In this new blog post, we explore why knowledge of space utilization is important to the executive office, HR and Finance all the way through to how data can reveal how well that office supports the needs and behaviors of employees.
We continue to encourage companies to consider how using spatial intelligence to capture such metrics as density, occupancy, office cost per employee, peak periods and over- or under-used space could foster designs of what an office could be. And how data insights such as team and visitor behaviors, visit frequency and pathway analyses can transform our understanding of how unique people work in-person.
Evolving Office Space: Supporting Productivity and Morale
Another point of focus for us is building awareness of how office space influences productivity and staff morale. With the hybrid evolution, office space planning becomes far more acute.
Another new blog post dives into how, with hybrid, we must move past how much space or square footage there is to how people are using the space and the office environment itself. Productivity and morale are connected to how spaces are broken up into workstations, conference rooms, private offices, lounges, communal areas, quiet zones, and much more. First comes: what do our employees want? We’ve got the recipe to find out (hint: it’s in the data).
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