Play to work: leisure in office design

Business is, by definition, geared towards profit. So how then to justify spending money on employee’s leisure zones?

Then comes the question: what defines ‘leisure’, and how does it contribute to wellbeing? In fact, how do you measure happiness in a workplace? One easy way to gauge your workers’ happiness is whether or not they’re running out the door at the stroke of five.

“[Good design] is a recruiting and retention tool,” says Andrew Waddle of Gensler. "It’s a tried and true ‘build it and they will come’ strategy. And after they come, if it’s done well, they will stay."

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