High competition permeates the contemporary job market, stimulating businesses to race for best employees, with incentives including proper culture and ethics standards and optimised workspace options apart from just good salaries. The question of how to configure the workplace to attract and sustain a competent team calls for careful thought. A good office design should promote employees’ overall welfare and experience while ensuring outstanding aesthetic features. The majority of potential employees make up their minds in as little as a minute from arriving at an interview, and their decisions are chiefly based on the look and feel of the office. It is therefore evident that investing in a well-planned workspace works for the future of a company with such a positive effect on its appeal to potential workforce.
Where you meet job applicants makes a difference
As a recruiter, you cannot forget that a space where you host interviews for a job is no less crucial than the substance of the meeting. If you wish to dazzle your prospective employees with career offers, the self-contained hushFree.M acoustic meeting pod for four will be one of the ideal locations to do it. It equips you with a barrier against the bustle of the open-plan office so you can peacefully immerse yourselves in candid exchange. You will have numerous options to add furniture that you find best for creating homely settings to talk to your applicants.
The presence of acoustic pods from the Hushoffice range in your office space is an obvious sign for job applicants that your firm puts special emphasis on the experience of its teams in a personalised workplace.
Work setting plays a critical role in building positive staff experience
Work settings exert strong influence on your team experience in the office, which scientists have confirmed in numerous surveys and analyses on HR division. Most specialists working in the office concur that they perform much better if their work space is properly arranged. Special office areas designed for collective and solitary work, as well as teleworking, are hubs for innovativeness, open exchange and developing sound working routines.
Hushed rooms for chilling out and talking on the phone
A large number of office staff agree that offices should be designed with proper work conditions in mind, and that this reflects whether employers care for their teams or not. Creating special areas in the office that offer a variety of facilities from soft seating, moderately lit chillout zones, hushed cabins to drowse in, to patios furnished with a comfy bench and decorative potted plants shows evidently that a company supports the health of its teams and encourages them to have sufficient rest.
Providing employees with the improved acoustics of meeting and teleconferencing facilities – compared to when working from home – proves vital in the hybrid office. This brings about a more comfortable working environment, as well as fosters the culture of your company in which both private and work lives are equally important.
A whole range of workstation options
Top young-generation employees on the labour market value organisations that give them flexible choice. As revealed by Gensler Research Institute’s U.S. WORKPLACE SURVEY 2022, undisturbed focus is among the key factors that respondents point to when considering their office comeback [1]. With the flexible equipment of sit-stand desks, dry-erase boards with castors, portable sound-absorbing walls, hushSpot collaborative benches and the hushFree.S acoustic pods for one user, employees will find more independence in shaping their environments for both solitary and joint work.
You can ensure the wide choice of the right workspace for any given project and liking if you can plan your office layout strategically. You will enhance how your office is perceived by your workforce when you alternate regular work environments with coworking centres and silent areas for deep work. This variety of work conditions displays that you are receptive to novelty and particular needs of your staff.
Open-plan and self-contained office spaces
Today, there is a trend to provide both collaborative, open-plan layouts and more discreet rooms where teams can have a video meeting or work in deep focus.
They expect that hybrid work environments can enhance unrestricted communication and collective work in open-plan office spaces. These parts in the office will benefit especially the employees who favour contact with others and vibrant collaboration.
On the other hand, the self-contained room in acoustic work and meet pods offers hushed, immersive and private environments for specialists who must focus deeply on their work.
Potted plants and sunlight are added value for everyone
Providing for the access to daylight makes all the difference for offices, because it adds to the positive experience of teams who frequently work on a typical 9-5 basis. When recruiting your workforce, you should think about removing any items restricting daylight, using translucent window blinds and careful planning work areas not too far from windows so that teams can enjoy their healthy work environment. It is also of great importance to note that insufficient artificial illumination will have a negative effect on staff health. Our office pods from the hushFree line come with 500+ lux of adjustable light intensity measured at desk level – compliant with the requirements for wide range of office works.
[1] https://www.gensler.com/gri/us-workplace-survey-2022
