Space that fits how you work
The right mix of focus, collaboration, and social space for your team — and your real hybrid pattern, not a guess. Get the ratios roughly right.
Space that fits how you work
Pillar three: it fits how you work. A great office matches the actual shape of your team’s days — how much focus versus collaboration, how many people are in on a typical day, what they come in for. Get this roughly right and the space feels effortless; get it wrong and it’s a fight every day.
Start from how the team actually works
- Your real hybrid pattern. If people come in to collaborate, you need more rooms and social space and fewer dedicated desks. If they come in to focus, the opposite. Design for the busy day, not the average — a space that breaks on Tuesdays isn’t great.
- The mix of settings. Focus rooms and quiet zones, collaboration rooms, casual social space, and enough phone/video booths. A floor of identical desks serves none of these well.
- Meeting-room math. Most offices are short on small rooms and long on big ones. Count seats and room counts against headcount, not vibes.
- Neighborhoods. Group teams so the people who work together sit together — one of the highest-impact, lowest-cost layout decisions, and one of the hardest to change once people settle in.
Why this is great-by-design
Layout, room counts, and where power and data run live deep in construction and FF&E territory — expensive and disruptive to redo. This is a textbook great-by-design call: cheap to get right on paper now, costly to fix after the walls and furniture are in.
Next action
Size the mix with the Space & Ratios Worksheet — desks, rooms, and social space against your real headcount and in-office pattern — before you finalize the layout.