Workplace design has never been so important. If you need proof, look at retention, recruitment, and productivity at companies that did their offices right.
Today, interior designers approach office projects almost like functional art, unique to each client. Architects consider design trends as you do the stars in the sky—they’re reference points, something to analyze and consider. But they’re probably dead by the time they’re seeing them. The interior designer must be a mirror. If not, the company risks this, as described by Gustavo Hinojosa, the director of commercial interiors for Dallas design firm HKS: “You’re in a suit that doesn’t fit.”