6/ 📚 The report includes checklists to help get greenery right and offers guidance on what to do when greenery goes wrong. 👉 https://www.hassellstudio.com/research/from-office-to-oasis-how-landlords-and-developers-can-transform-workplaces-with-green-spaces

5/ ⚠️ Green spaces can go wrong for various reasons, such as not considering climate/weather, inadequate maintenance, poor access & visibility, red tape, bad ergonomics, or unclear ownership. (Generally, all solvable)

4/ 🌳 A perfect storm is driving tenants towards buildings with green spaces: the competition to attract and retain employees, the challenge of getting people back to offices, the emphasis on wellness and productivity, and the growing concern over climate change.

3/ Some key findings:
🤑 Tenants are asking for and regularly paying a premium for green spaces, which often serve as a critical market differentiator.

2/ 🔍 I've been reviewing projects, pouring through survey data, and talking to developers, landlords, designers, tenants, and others experts. The result, our latest whitepaper, "From Office to Oasis."

1/ 🌿🏢 In our annual workplace survey last year, the two most coveted workplace amenities were: fresh air and green space. But how best do you integrate greenery in an office building? I've been studying this question for the past couple of months 👇

@bwaber Yeah, if there was a way to utilize vacant space in the off-peak days (maybe dynamic pricing?) that'd be pretty amazing.

@bwaber 😂

@kerstinsailer @bwaber That's really cool, we've pitched clients on deskless offices but none have taken us up. Reading the articles on the Dropbox office now – really cool to see someone pull it off!

@bwaber I think many of these business leaders are looking at attendance numbers and realizing that they'll probably never have day when every employee is back sitting at a desk. That's not to say these workplaces can't accommodate larger groups – but when this happens, it'll be more for town halls and social events. Of course, as you say, this requires thinking through implications like how it affects social bonds.

@bwaber I understand the concern but this is pretty common in Australian workplaces at the moment. For whatever reason, AU firms embraced ABW even before the pandemic. And sharing ratios have changed a lot over there recently. Prior the pandemic, the average was around 0.8 (8 desks for 10 people). Now it's about 0.5.

Obviously, this approach isn’t suitable for every company. But as we think about the future of the workplace, I think we need more of this bold thinking. We can’t just add Zoom rooms to an existing office and call it a day. We need to be prepared for the reality that companies might need to halve their real estate footprint, that seating strategies may have to radically change, and that the way the office operates may need to be rethought.

Making this work required tradeoffs:
- Employees don’t have assigned desks (because they might work on a different floor the next day)
- The office only has enough desks for half the company (because not everyone will be there every day)
- Amenities had to be shuffled around to allow floors to close (because you don’t want to close a floor with an important meeting scheduled on it)
- People need to book to come into the office (because you need advanced warning of how many floors to open).

In this case, the office was designed to adjust dynamically to attendance numbers. On busy days, all nine floors would be opened. On quieter days, floors would be turned off, leaving a critical density of people on floors left open.

This is the most radical workplace I’ve seen post-pandemic. I wasn’t involved in creating it – I just saw it in an internal presentation and was blown away by how bold it was.

Basically, the client was in a situation familiar to many companies: their employees had embraced hybrid working, leaving the office quiet on Mondays and Fridays.

How do you design an office primarily used three days a week that feels vibrant and busy on days when attendance is low?

https://www.hassellstudio.com/conversation/the-three-day-a-week-office-a-strategy-for-the-new-era-of-hybrid-working

Changing an office's temperature set point from 21c to 24c (70f to 75f) halves the energy spent on cooling in the summer with no impact on thermal comfort, suggests researchers from Australia. In other words: we're wasting a lot of resources unnecessarily cooling buildings. https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/12/12/2259

New study from my colleague Camilla Siggaard-Andersen exploring at how hybrid working might reshape cities. Explores a range of possible scenarios and talks about how governments, designers, and the public can help shape our post-pandemic future.

https://irp.cdn-website.com/4065c16c/files/uploaded/TIME-WELL-SPENT_WEB-071222.pdf

New study from my colleague Camilla Siggaard-Andersen exploring at how hybrid working might reshape cities. Explores a range of possible scenarios and talks about how governments, designers, and the public can help shape our post-pandemic future.

https://irp.cdn-website.com/4065c16c/files/uploaded/TIME-WELL-SPENT_WEB-071222.pdf