In and Out has more desks and cubicles but still relies on people working remotely
Woods Bagot has created four proposals for workplace design following coronavirusthat merge working from home and office life to "strengthen culture and performance".
The Working from Home, Working from Work project was created by the architecture firm to move beyond health and safety measures, which are a given, and focus on encouraging collaboration and creativity during and after the coronavirus pandemic.
The four workplace models – Culture Club, In and Out, Community Nodes and Collectives – are designed with the idea that a percentage of employees will still work from home. Each has different arrangements of desks, chair and couches.
"Simply reducing density and cleaning more is not giving companies a good reason to bring people back to the workplace," said Woods Bagot. "Everyone is talking about how to make the post-Covid office safe, but no-one is talking about how to strengthen culture and performance."
In Culture Club, small groupings of sofas, coffee tables, chairs and cafe tables outfit almost the entire office. Working independently with a desk is expected to be accomplished at home, making people only travel to work when in-person collaboration is necessary.
"We'll see the physical office becoming a more club-like space, a place of creative interaction," Woods Bagot said.
In and Out relies on rotating teams and imagines just a percentage of the company in the office. Desks and private tables with barriers fill the space.