Inspiring spaces deliver a lot of workforce happiness, there’s no doubt. But truly people-focused design goes further to deliver immediate and long-term benefits for businesses that lead to growth.
Energised, engaged, happier workforce
Happiness at work enables positive relationships and ease of working. Over half of UK employees feel unhappy at work and there’s a lot the environment can do to improve this. From natural light and materials, open, inclusive spaces and cheering, sociable areas, to embedding the specific requirements people with additional needs require to thrive at work.
Increased retention and attraction of talent
One of the biggest overheads faced by employers – getting and keeping good people. According to a 2024 UK YouGov poll only 17% of British workers love their job, causing a fluidity in the workforce that leads workers to increasingly want to move on and talented people therefore targeted by competitors. Where workers feel valued and enabled to achieve their best work in a high-quality environment, they’re more likely to stay, and that goes for the best talent in your industry.
Increased productivity
Since the enlightening Stoddart Review, the link between workplace and productivity continues to be a focus for forward-thinking organisations, with people-centric design trends implemented to improve productivity. Particularly in the UK, where productivity often compares unfavourably to other G7 member states. Workplace design includes, for example, green space and biophilic elements to aid employees’ wellbeing and work abilities and benchmarking indexes continue to reveal that between 64% and 86% of employees agree their workplace enables them to work productively.
Established competitive advantage
Creativity drives commerce and establishes your competitive advantage in industry. For our clients, workplaces aren’t just overheads – they help to generate revenue by boosting teams’ creativity. Increased productivity plus the creativity to stay ahead creates a leading edge over competitors in your marketplace. Not only that, as part of bidding due diligence, clients will often want to visit your working environment. A well-designed workspace, and a dynamic, happy workforce will project well on you and ensure the establishment of crucial partnerships.
Realisation of long-term growth
There’s little prospect of a journey for long-term growth without a switched-on workforce, retained top industry talent, high productivity and competitive advantage. What we see, time and again is how businesses are enabled to plan and realised their growth trajectory once they have the productive, positive, joyful workspace they need.
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