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When was the last time your employees had a conversation with their CEO? The answer may surprise you.
Amenities-driven workplaces have literally opened the doors to collaboration. Large, isolated executive offices and cramped cubicles have given way to open floor plans designed around comfortable, productive hubs—think touchdown environments with soft seating and integrated power, or practical and purposeful café spaces.
Here are four essential principles to make the pivot to a comprehensive executive space—and how office and furniture design help make it successful.
Featured Products: Cofi® seating and Workwall®
Collaboration requires role models, and in an organizational hierarchy, that responsibility falls on leadership. Workers want to know executives are involved and conscious of decisions that impact their jobs. Transparency and trust are fundamental elements of companies with high employee engagement and retention—wise leaders use it to rally teams to a common goal. Beyond increasing engagement, workplace transparency also improves morale, boosts performance, and lowers job-related stress.
Even in open offices, empathy sometimes requires privacy, particularly when it comes to personnel matters like interviews and performance reviews. Create a shared executive space that exceeds expectations. Consider HON’s Concinnity™ for the presence such conversations require. Its sleek design offers a respectful upscale appearance that still delivers functionality for whatever the day has in store, with superior configuration options to suit any need or taste.
Featured Products: Ignition® seating, Voi® desk, and Matter® collaborative seating
Dynamic workforces need dynamic workspaces—flexibility a driving factor in the design of their current environment.
For daily use, choose a desk that signals your shared purpose. HON’s Voi® series of compact workstations come in various configurations with options to serve employees and executives equally. Whether used as individual touch-down spaces, or arranged into enclaves that bring teams together and foster collaboration, it’s among our most versatile workstation solutions.
Featured Product: Cliq® seating, Empower® Workstations, and Fuse™ Storage
Perks like private bathrooms and designated parking aside, the most conspicuous standard of executive status used to be square footage. But research shows that mindset is shifting, favoring teams and departments whose roles require more room to create and collaborate.
All of that collaboration demands storage that’s just as innovative. HON’s Flagship® and Contain® Storage Islands are often the perfect fit. Infinitely scalable and available in more than a dozen classic and contemporary finishes, both add horizontal work surfaces and fit seamlessly into dedicated project spaces and informal meeting spots so workers will have access to the materials they need, from markers to note cards, to adapters and batteries, when and where they need them.
Startups exist to shake up the status quo. When it comes to workplace design, their philosophies about hands-on leadership and office layout often intersect. And amenities-rich spaces are number one on the list. Where to start? Seating.
Seating options are just as important as seating arrangement, and HON has an award-winning solution for every space. From the sleek sophistication of our Cofi™ executive conference chair to the universal utility and custom feel of our Cipher™ and Nucleus® task chairs, finding the right fit for everyone is easy.
But seating goes beyond conference rooms and private offices. Whether you’re the CFO or an intern, sometimes you need to get away from the status quo—and this is where an amenities-rich environment takes flight. Private soft seating that away from the traditional desk offers people a much-needed change of scenery, while inviting fabrics and textures embrace the residential warmth people crave on busy days.
The bottom line? Having the power of choice makes all the difference in professional spaces. Directors, managers, creatives—and everyone in between—deserve environments that support, inspire, and unite one another. By championing an amenities-driven philosophy, everyone has a seat at the table.
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