Office Space Planning Across Manchester, Liverpool and Cheshire
Hybrid Office Space Planning, Manchester
With hybrid working a common feature for an increasing number of organisations, the need for flexible and agile workspaces is increasing. Planning and arranging your space well, from floor plans to furniture choice will have a positive impact on the productivity, collaboration, and overall wellbeing of all colleagues. We offer a complete office space planning service for organisations across the region, from Cheshire to Liverpool. Our team of experts know how to get the most out of a working space and can tailor it to the needs of any business. We’ll help you find the right blend of traditional desks, quiet zones and breakout areas for ease of movement, and an environment that can adapt to a variety of working styles.
With our office space planning services, we can include any combination of the features listed below:
Breakout Areas
These versatile spaces can include simple arrangements of chairs and tables with a more casual feel. This makes them ideal for brief, informal conversations before a meeting, swapping ideas, or pausing to catch up on messages.
Collaborative Spaces
A key feature of any hybrid office planning project, collaborative spaces are a more casual version of a traditional meeting room. If your team needs a space away from desks to brainstorm, swap ideas, or work on a project, having one or more of these spaces in your office can foster creativity and spontaneity.
Conference and Meeting Rooms
A vital part of any office space, meeting and conference rooms are needed for more formal client meetings, performance reviews, and departmental meetings. Our office space planning service can help you source furniture, install IT equipment, and craft functional and elegant interiors.
Desk and Work Zones
With our innovative design solutions, we can incorporate elements of the traditional desk setup with more up to date features, to facilitate focused work. Features such as standing desks, adjustable lighting and charging ports can come together to facilitate hot desking, and other agile working styles.
Dining Areas and Canteens
These spaces are no longer seen as purely a place for staff to refuel during a lunch hour. Designed well, they can be versatile settings for impromptu meetings and casual communication.
Get in touch to benefit from our experience of creating areas where hierarchies are less evident and ideas and creativity are allowed to flow more freely. Our designs for these areas also include innovative, practical and impactful solutions for Tea Points and kitchens too.
Executive Offices
In many instances, the emerging hybrid model involves many of the leadership team working from the office for much of their time. Where this is the case, the requirement for executive offices is unlikely to disappear.
Creating the desired statement these spaces make can be far from straightforward. However, given we have access to thousands of furniture and fittings options, we are sure we'll find one that fits perfectly.
Home Offices
It has been recognised for some time now that providing employees who spend a significant percentage of their time working from home with decent tools makes sense from a wellbeing and productivity perspective.
The range of products for the home office has exploded. As well as desk and chair options, we’ve discovered some great space saving solutions that help us create spaces that inspire and ensure productivity.
Quiet Zones
Another niche which has developed rapidly in recent years covers pods and booths. Again, the variety and range of options is huge.
Talk to us and we'll help you choose the right combination of units. For example, meeting pods are great for short, tightly focussed meetings and individual pods provide a comfortable, quiet alternative to desks. Where privacy is key, soundproof individual booths are ideal for important calls and soundproof meeting booths are perfect when sensitive matters are on the agenda.
Reception Areas
First impressions count! This is as true now as it ever was, and the amount of time we spend on reception designs, to ensure these spaces do and say what clients want then to, is often much greater than other spaces we collaborate on.
Contact us to learn how our extensive global network of partners enable us to supply a huge range of components from prestige counters to finishing touches like biophilic panels, plants and murals. This extensive reach gives us a the edge in creating impactful spaces which convey the impression you require.
Resource Hubs
Whilst the reduction in the number of hard copy documents we use has, in the main, declined, the need to print, scan, and copy is still very much with us. Additionally, an emphasis on sustainability and recycling means consideration needs to be given as to how resource hubs accommodate print, post, and recycling requirements.
Speak to us and we can advise on where to locate these hubs to avoid disruption, how to configure them and selecting the right materials that meet the needs of today's bio-security conscious workplaces.
Social Spaces
It used to be the norm that the ratio of shared space to to private space was around 20:80. As open-plan office concept emerged, this slowly changed to around 30:70. Today, reports estimate that the ratio has dramatically changed to at least 50:50, and in highly collaborative environments, the ratios are often reversed to 70:30.
Get in touch to discuss how we can help you harness the generational and lifestyle changes to create spaces that boost colleague engagement.
Storage Hubs
The adoption of the hybrid working and agile office models has a significant impact on storage needs. Our deep knowledge of this area enables us to craft solutions which incorporate lockers, media walls, storage walls and traditional freestanding storage units such as pedestals and filing cabinets.
Start a conversation with us and we'll advise on options and configurations which optimise space and business processes.
Get in Touch
If you’re looking to update your office space, and facilitate hybrid working styles, please reach out to our office space planning team in Manchester. Fill out the contact form below, and we’ll be in contact to arrange an initial consultation.