Network Landscapes 2016

CREATING GREAT COLLABORATIVE WORKSPACE

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Solutions for the office migrating away from hierarchical, systems focused environments, to more casual and diverse network spaces.

Realising a fresh generational counterpoint within the contemporary workplace.

Expanding the Smartworking landscape

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Perhaps within our workplace of ever slick ‘always-on, always-visible’ controlling and homogeneous technology, we are seeking a more idiosyncratic, individual, craft and handmade quality.

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The office will have to become a softer, more relaxing, humane and diverse environment.

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As Malcolm Gladwell now articulates, this generational difference highlights a paradigm shift from a hieratical society, to a network society and from the individual to the connected & collaborative.

As the Millennial generation continues to grow in importance within the workplace, so the design values of the contemporary workplace must yield to new ascetic and function demands.

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The differences between the Boomer and Millennial generations are profound. The new behaviors and values of the Millennial generation, both cultural and technological, continue to be played out within the workplace.

Perhaps these values are more prevalent and expressed within the embryonic but rapidly growing coworking spaces, than within the more long established, corporate workplace.

Where their agenda is to demonstrate, through their culture and design that these new work environments are not simply – a new version of the conventional workplace.

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Spaces we seek out to spend ‘ time out’ to relax and socialise.

Places that offer a more comforting counterpoint, to our continuous and 100% demanding networked technology.

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Spaces created by individuals, not committees.

Spaces that are not perfect and controlled, that don’t look or feel like a corporate office.

Using non office materials, scale and mix that reflect a more idiosyncratic and personal viewpoint.

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helping organisations realise the need for these new, more diverse and relaxing work spaces.

Where the collaborative is more important than the personal and the casual valued above formality.

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Furniture for spaces where corporate uniformity is replaced by diversity and choice.

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Where the ubiquitousness of made by machine systems, is balanced with ‘ made by hand’ plurality.

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Armchair coffee and lets discuss

Put the funk into functional

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We need to share this on the screen

If today feels just like yesterday, something’s wrong

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Relax and work with us

You used to have a job, but we won’t hold it against you

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Everyone together can solve this

More balls, less chains and un-work is in progress

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We need to discuss and develop together

Titles suck, this is a collaborative environment

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Let’s get round the table

If you can’t enjoy it, don’t do it

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See you on the sofa

Not all work can be play

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Because of the importance of this new product bandwidth to Orangebox,

we presented the collection to the senior team in the new Orangebox factory at Parc Nantgarw before the production lines were installed.

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Exploiting the potential and addressing the shortfalls, of the open plan workspace.

Our ‘always-on’ technology brings one of the key downsides of open plan working, into even more focus.

Being continuously on view - both physically and on-line, has to be balanced with the need to be able to also work with privacy and concentration.

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Solutions for the office migrating away from hierarchical, systems focused environments, to more casual and diverse network spaces.

Realising a fresh generational counterpoint within the contemporary workplace.

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Why commit to spaces that can’t change or evolve

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Research and insight exploring the potential to create successful collaborative, open plan workspaces.

Proximity | Privacy | Permission Insight from over a decade of workspace research by Ann-Laure Fayard and John Weeks finds that a workspace may or may not encourage interaction depending on how it balances three critical elements or “affordances” that have both physical and social dynamics - proximity, privacy and permission.

Two reports published by the Harvard Business School in July | August 2011 and April 2012* articulate the pitfall’s of pursuing misguided assumptions when planning and designing collaborative, open plan workspaces.

Research finds that the most effective spaces bring people together and remove barriers while also providing sufficient privacy that people don’t fear being overheard or interrupted. Additionally successful environments have to clearly indicate, when it’s ok to interrupt and when not.

Evidence shows that removing physical barriers and bringing people closer to one another does promote casual interactions. But there’s roughly an equal amount of evidence, which indicates that because open plan spaces reduce privacy, they don’t automatically foster informal exchanges and may actually inhibit them.

The HBR reports, “Getting the balance wrong can turn a well-meant effort to foster creative collaboration into a frustrating lesson in unintended consequences”. The implication from their research shows that “true privacy allows you to control colleagues access to you - so that you can choose whither or not to interact” and “informal interactions won’t flourish, if people can’t avoid interacting when they wish to” This invaluable research shows that its critical within any successful collaborative space to properly balance proximity, privacy and permission and that “project leaders within each organisation have to clearly articulate desired behaviors”, in both our physical and increasingly in our virtual spaces.

Additional research conducted by Alex Pentlands of MIT’s Human Dynamics Laboratory finds that the chemistry of high-performance groups is not a mystery, but measurable and quantifiable.

“High performance lies not in the content of a team’s discussion He reports “it seams almost absurd that how we communicate could be so much more important to success than what we communicate” and his extensive research shows with remarkable consistency that communication plays a critical role in building successful teams “patterns of communication is the most important predictors of a teams success”.

Increasingly organisations have to recgonise that what managers sense as an “ineffable buzz or esprit de corps in a good team is actually observable, measurable, and learnable”.

Pentlands research concludes that creating successful collaborative workspaces need not be a matter of chance but can be planned and he asserts, “data can now provide a foundation on which to build better individual and team performance”.

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“ informal interactions won’t flourish, if people can’t avoid interacting when they wish to”

but in the manner in which it communicates”.

“ 35% of the variation in a teams performance can be accounted for simply by the number of face-to-face exchanges among team members”. “ Engaging in one to one conservations, which are usually quite short - it may seem illogical that all those side exchanges contribute to better performance, rather than distract a team, but the data proves otherwise”. [ 35 ]

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“ If we look at evolutionary history, we can see that language is a relatively recent development and was most likely layered upon older signals that communicate dominance, interest and emotion.

Today these ancient patterns of communications still shape how we make decisions and coordinate work among ourselves”.

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“ Today we know that chance encounters and conservations on the job promote co-operation and innovation, and companies now craft their floor plans and work cultures with this in mind”.

Professor Thomas Allen of MIT, discovered that the frequency of workers’ interactions, decline exponentially with the distance between their offices.

To improve the dissemination and sharing of ideas, we should create spaces containing several shared resources. The social geography of a space is a crucial component of its physical layout.

Allow a conservation that began in the open, to move Informal interactions won’t flourish if people can’t avoid interacting when they wish to.

to a more private space without having to seek a room, avoids a disruption that can end the conservation.

Permission reflects the interplay of physical space, furniture and company culture.

Build flexibility into your design so that you can test permutations and measure the design’s effects.

A furniture configuration generally gets its intended use only when the design exposes its purpose.

Our research shows that if you throw the three P’s - proximity, privacy and permission out of balance you cause casual interaction to plummet.

If you don’t build in privacy and convey adequate permission protocols, you will probably end up with a space that triggers ephemeral interactions bearing little fruit.

“ We’ve found that many managers say they value informal interactions but in fact crush them by making negative comments when they witness them”.

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the best predictors of productivity were a teams energy and engagement outside formal meetings”.

“ The most valuable form of communication is face-to-face.

The next most valuable is by phone or video conference, but with a caveat: Those technologies become less effective as more people participate”.

People need time and space if a light conservation is to evolve into something more substantial.

This insight is taken from the Harvard Business Review of July | August 2011, Who moved my Cube? By Anne-Laurie Fayard and John Weeks and The New Science of Building Great Teams by Alex Pentland from April 2012.

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Two fundamental assets within any organisation are its people and the

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technology they access. Both are changing more rapidly than at any time in history.

As we increasingly value access from a variety of smaller devices, with longer battery life, instant-on function, and intuitive touch-centric interfaces, so the predominance of the personal desk with its tethered technology will become increasingly obsolete.

Away from the Desk and Network Landscapes are designed to exploit the potential of this new scenario and deliver a new vitality, within a more relaxing, diverse and productive workplace.

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The fixed private desk is replaced with a new diversity of work surfaces, both individual and shared.

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Expanding the Smartworking landscape

Network Landscapes

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Solutions for the office migrating away from hierarchical, systems focused environments, to more casual and diverse network spaces.

Realising a fresh generational counterpoint within the contemporary workplace.

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Realising a fresh generational counterpoint, with more casual and diverse network spaces.

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3 office plans illustrate Away from the Desk and Network Landscapes, working with Airea Pods, within a single floor plate.

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Demonstrating the diversity of innovative workplace options offered by these three core Orangebox Smartworking products. Which combine to achieve multiple and adjacent work scenarios, for both individual work and collaborative working.

With their diversity of multiple work surface options and always with power & data connectivity, screen to screen collaboration tools and semi open or fully enclosed screen conferencing.

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Spaces that are not perfect and controlled, that don’t look or feel like a corporate office.

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Using non office materials, scale and mix that reflect a more idiosyncratic and personal viewpoint.

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Within the busy open plan and shared office, the ability to arrive, plug in and work privately is critical.

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Being able to move seamlessly from concentrating quietly, to having a quick ten minute conservation with colleagues, to a three hour team meeting within the same office space delivers a new vitality to the collaborative workplace, freed from the restraints of fixed and teathered technology.

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Spaces created by individuals, not committees.

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Spaces where corporate uniformity is replaced by diversity and choice.

Where the ubiquitousness of made by machine systems, is balanced with ‘made by hand’ plurality.

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Our new mobile technologies means we can easily and effectively realise a workplace where ‘your screen is my screen’, which means we can collaborate more effectively with our colleagues, either within the same space or within diverse locations.

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Within the Away from the Desk workplace, meetings migrate from being exclusively face to face, to become a mix of both ‘face to face’ and ‘screen to screen’ and more probably a mix of the two.

Our mobile and collaborative technology works tools also means that our collaborations can stay on-line and interactive and our café/break out spaces, rather than being a destination away from our work space, can contribute to a more varied, stimulating and engaging office environment.

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Places that offer a more comforting counterpoint, to our continuous

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The agenda at the heart of Away from the Desk is to achieve a rich diversity of work settings and the ability to refresh with a drink and snack,

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without being required to go to a specialist space is a crucial part of this mix.

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This ability to work on-line simultaneously will redefine the productive power of collaboration and help install a new vitality within organisations that pursue the economic benefits offered.

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‘Always on’ technology demands more from all of us and as our networks move towards omnipresence and we become always visible, this constant pressure to respond, means our work environment will have to reciprocate - with more diverse and relaxing work spaces.

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Solutions for the office migrating away from hierarchical, systems focused environments, to more casual and diverse network spaces.

Realising a fresh generational counterpoint within the contemporary workplace.

“ We no longer tell our people, where they must work. We wont even tell them any longer, how they must work. We now make agreements on the results they must achieve and we create great environments, to let this happen”.

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In a saturated market where product and brand innovation will be quickly copied and assimilated into the workplace spec’. Having a continuously authentic and authoritative voice is critical, to long term prosperity and meaningful growth.

Away from the Desk & Network Landscapes are product platforms focused on conveying an innovative and relevant narrative, born from research and insight. To deliver product stories, which can realise substantial market traction and create clear ground for Orangebox, within our saturated markets.

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GERARD TAYLOR / Design Studio 1 Butler House, First Floor, 51 Curtain Road, London, EC2A 3PT

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T. 020 7739 8208 e-mail. gerry@gerardtaylor.com skype. gerardtaylor.com

Solutions for the office migrating away from hierarchical, systems focused environments, to more casual and diverse network spaces.

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Realising a fresh generational counterpoint within the contemporary workplace.

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