OVERVIEW: Welcome to a workshop presenting emerging ideas and trends in office and workplace design with examples illustrating the concepts shared.. During the dynamic presentation, Steve, the presenter, embellishes the slides with lively anecdotes and details not available here which make attending the seminar in person very valuable and not to miss. WANT TO KNOW MORE? If you're interested in having Steve tailor a presentation or elements of this presentation to your organization or workplace please contact him at steve@arocordisdesign.com or call 802-448-0056. The content can also be divided and expanded into smaller richer segments or a limited series where Steve can goes more in detail in the areas most benefiting your organizational priorities. ISSUES, IDEAS AND EXAMPLES: Issues addressed by Steve which you may be facing in your organization include the following: How to integrate your mission, purpose and values into the design process and result. Working with multiple generations at work, Transitioning to a more open office work setting and how to do it well, Ways to use workplace design to cultivate stronger worker engagement and cultures, Other include sustainability, office acoustics, workplace etiquette and protocols, What to look for and look out for when looking at prospective spaces to fit-up, property to build-out, How important clear and interconnected space branding is, Steve also covers the importance to focus on wellness and wellbeing while bringing nature indoors to boost worker productivity, engagement and satisfaction.

1. Emerging trends, ideas & examples
Work, Workers, Workplace
Stephen M. Frey, AIA – Principal
Arocordis Design
Montpelier, Vermont
cultivating inspired sustainable places and spaces

2. Story

3. Commercial

4. Institutional

5. Planning

6. Ideas

7. Creating & sustaining a “best place to work”

8. Purpose
Passion
Meaning
© Arocordis Design
Where are we going?
Corn leaf Cell, Schulte©
Off-shoring
Wellness & wellbeing
Our brand - local, national
& global competition
Workforce training out of sync with needs
Permitting challenges

9. BABY BOOMERS 1946 to
1964
=
© Arocordis Design
Is it generational or not?
=
Purpose
Passion
Meaning

10. © Arocordis Design
Millennials to dominate workforce by 2025
(75%)
=
Millenials (and every one else)
seek:
• Purposeful connection to
business mission, “Walking the
talk.”
• Work / Life balance yet
committed
• Values & give back to
Purpose
Passion
Meaning
Source – F. Drew, Brookings Data Now, 2014

11. 15%–<20% 20%–<25% 25%–<30% 30%–<35% ≥35%
Prevalence* of Self-Reported Obesity Among U.S. Adults
by State and Territory, BRFSS, 2013
*Prevalence estimates reflect BRFSS methodological changes started in 2011. These estimates should not be compared to
prevalence estimates before 2011.
CA
MT
ID
NV
UT
AZ
NM
WY
WA
OR
CO
NE
ND
SD
TX
OK
KS
IA
MN
AR
MO
LA
MI
IN
KY
IL
OH
TN
MS AL
WI
PA
WV
SC
VA
NC
GA
FL
NY
VT
ME
HI
AK
NH
MA
RI
CT
NJ
DE
MD
DC
PRGUAM
An obesity epidemic
VT

12. Rising sedentary behavior
“ The amount of time a person sits during the day is
associated with a higher risk of heart disease, diabetes,
cancer, and death, regardless of regular exercise, according
to a review study published today in the Annals of Internal
Medicine.”

13. Cultivate an active work culture

14. The seven faces of wellness
Active design, with on & off-site programming
Vibrant storytelling, three-dimensional branding
Offer quiet away spaces for reflection, renewal
On-site learning spaces, inspiring growth
attention to safety, wellbeing, ergonomics
Spaces to encourage social, face to face interactions.
Views, fresh air, comfort, energy efficient

15. Tune your
space
Photo by: Adam Levine –
I’m singing this note’
cause it fits in well… cc
license
Tune Your
Space:
Customize
architecture, layout,
furniture to
business, physical
and technology
needs

16. Provide a variety of choices of movement at
work SIT TO
STAND
SITTING STANDING
LOUNGING
&
PERCHING
MOVING
S E D E N T A R Y A C T I V E C A R D I OE N G A G E D

17. Provide a range of spatial choices
LOUNGING
& QUIET
PRIVATE
MORE
OPEN
SEMI-
PRIVATE
TOTALLY
OPEN
WA L L E D
O F F I C E S
H U D D L E
R O O M S
P H O N E
B O O T H S
F O C U S
R O O M S
H I G H
WA L L S W /
S O M E
L O W
C O L L A B
A R E A S
F O C U S
W O R K E R S
T E A M
R O O M S
S O M E
WA L L S &
R E F U G E
Q U I E T
S PA C E S
V A R I E T Y
O F S O C I A L
P O C K E T S
L O W E R
W A L L S
G AT H E R
T O G E T H E R
M O R E
S O C I A L
W O R K
T E A M S
L O W T O
N O WA L L S
T E A M S
W H I C H
I N T E R A C T
O F T E N
S TA N D U P
W O R K &
M E E T I N G
A R E A S

18. Emerging Trends

19. Emerging Trends Tune Your
Space:
“What office?…no
seriously.”
Dave Lathrop
Director of Applied Research
Network at Steelcase

20. Emerging Trends
1. Consolidate
locations
2. Locate by public
transportation
3. Design for
mobility & life /
work balance
4. Smaller is too
small!

21. Emerging Trends
1. Well-being and employee
health
2. Vertical development which
connects to community.
3. Social networking,
interaction and employee
engagement
Kay Sargent
Director of Workplace Strategies – Lend Lease Global

22. Two
Projects

23. NationalLifeGroup HQ Modernization Project
• Hillside campus location
• 700+ people
• 3 business units
• 250,000 sf (1958 part)
• Mission driven

24. An out of date workplace – “before”

25. Values driven design process
PROJECT
GOALS &
OBJECTIV
ES
BUSINESS & CULTURE
NEEDS
MISSION, BRAND
& CORE VALUES
SUSTAINABILITY &
STEWARDSHIP

26. Project goals & objectives
Workplace
Design
Strategies
CREATE AN ENDURING & FLEXIBLE
OPERATIONAL FRAMEWORK
ALIGN OFFICES
TO MISSION BRAND
& VALUES
CREATE AN ATTRACTIVE HIGH
PERFORMING, ENGAGING &
SUSTAINABLE WORKPLACE

27. Workplace Design Strategies• Reduce real
estate footprint
• Attract & retain
talent
• Move from “I” to
“We” spaces
• Streets & work
neighborhoods
• Front & backyards
• Branding & Story
• Nature near,

28. Workplace design strategies
• Enhance transparency
• Choices in
collaboration & privacy
• Work anywhere
• Paperless office
• State of the art energy
efficient lighting
upgrade

29. A design framework
(plan concept, circulation &
nodes)

30. FrontYards

31. Collaboration zones & backyards

32. Lighting upgrade – work areas

33. Branding graphics
reinforcing mission
core values, story

34. Stairs as wellness space

35. Planters / living walls / nature near

36. Renovated cafeteria servery & dining

37. Restrooms for wellbeing

38. VTLeagueofCities&Towns
• Downtown Montpelier, VT
location
• 50 people
• 3 depts. – (advocacy,
insurance and municipal
services)
• 15,000 sf
• Mission driven statewide
reach

39. Before conditions

42. Movement & Sociable spaces

43. Open work areas & hotel spaces

44. Backyards & huddle rooms

45. Meeting, collison and work areas w/ branded
artwork

46. Thank you!
Stephen M. Frey – AIA, Leed Ap
www.arocordis.com | 802-448-0056
info@arocordisdesign.com | @arocordisdesign (Tw)
88 Phillips Road | Montpelier, VT 05602
Photographers
we’d like to thank:
Carolyn Bates Photography
Jim Westphalen Photography
Gary Hall Photography
(others by Stephen Frey, various or as noted)