intentional amenities and how they create culture By Ariel Fischer (Associate Principal | Architect | Interior Designer) Patrick Cooley (Senior Associate | Emerging Professional) Emma Edmondson (Emerging Professional) Keely Haggar (Emerging Professional) In this era of record levels of workforce
priorities. As such, campus amenities
mobility, many companies are rethinking
became a design driver in every program
old ideas about the ways in which work
area. Every part of the campus is
gets done. The pandemic altered the
designed for flexibility, connectivity, and
very landscape of the workplace as huge
individual choice, and campus offerings
numbers of employees who transitioned
that make the workday easier, more
abruptly to remote work during the
enjoyable, and more productive are
public health crisis found that they loved
woven throughout the campus.
it. A thirty second commute, proximity to pets and snacks, and increased flexibility to create a healthier work/
G R E AT E R I N D I V I D U A L I Z AT I O N ,
life balance are all powerful incentives
G R E AT E R T R U S T
to keep employees working from their
Possibly the most important amenity
living rooms, back yards, and home
built into the modern workplace
offices. Companies of all sizes are facing
is trust. Employees, even those
significant recruitment and retention
accustomed to the high degree
challenges, and are struggling to attract
of independence and flexibility
employees who continue to be enticed
of remote work, can tailor their
by fully remote and flexible positions. It’s
workspaces to their individual
not just salaries: employees are looking
needs. The campus allows people
for a better workplace experience, and
to self-select work locations to
a foosball table in the breakroom isn’t
accommodate particular tasks,
enough.
preferences, goals for the day, or even the weather. There’s an
Attracting and retaining top-tier talent
offering for each type of worker,
in this market means going above and
from someone who needs quietude
beyond the competition, and recruitment
for focus to someone who thrives on
and employee satisfaction were top
continuous social interaction,