Workspaces are undergoing an accelerated transformation, aimed at improving their functionality and empathy to attract the best talent. Spatial redesign and furniture are key tools that promote new airs, ideas and projects. A new vision that must take into account the new trends in offices for 2023.
For this reason, the experts from the Alicante company, Actiu, describe the keys to creating comfortable and functional spacesthat care and motivate their users.
color in offices
The connection between color and emotions has been studied for centuries. Psychologists, artists and designers work with color to convey sensations and generate feelings. Color can also influence the mental, physical and emotional health of people, especially in a place where many hours are spent.
The 2023 office trends insist that the use of color is essential in the design of corporate spaces to create experiential workplaces that stimulate employees according to the activity they perform (concentration, collaboration, creativity, learning… ) within the new concept of hybrid offices. It is about choosing shades that convey well-being, serenity and even creativity, that have a positive effect on people’s moods.
Agility and ability to adapt to changes
In this new and changing reality, the agility and ability of companies to adapt to changes will be crucial, both in their projects and work methodologies and in the well-being and comfort of their workers in corporate environments.
Space hacking
It is an emerging trend that gives employees freedom to define and configure their jobs. The design must be empathetic, so that it can be used naturally, and include variable elements that allow it to adapt to the functions of each moment.
When landing the new concept, the equipment is a strategic factor to which collections such as Agile by Actiu help to adjust the space to the preferences and activities of the teams at all times, creating a versatile and dynamic workplace. The changes are not limited to traditional offices, but also hybrid spaces and the relevant furniture to respond to phenomena such as coworking, which includes everything from hotels to cafeterias and even commercial establishments that have a lounge area.
Smart Spaces
Safety and well-being in the workplace depends on factors such as air quality, temperature, humidity, sound, light and density, among others. Cutting-edge technologies such as Gaia by Actiu offer the answers to these new needs. It is an intelligent platform that allows measuring and supervising all these parameters, offering companies relevant information in the form of knowledge that allows them to adopt measures and adjustments that contribute to improving the work environment.
sustainable office. biophilia
If well-being is the first premise of any workspace, sustainability is the second. A territory where biophilic design comes into play, connecting people and nature, with a positive impact on mood and health, and it does so both through vegetation and through colours, textures, natural elements and natural lighting.
Regenerative Economy
The next step is to promote the regenerative economy, understood as returning a system or product to its original or improved state. In other words, restore or even improve an ecosystem, taking into account issues such as the carbon footprint of a product, the fiscal footprint or the employment footprint, measuring the environmental, economic and social return of each one. Applied to people’s well-being, it means creating spaces capable of regenerating people’s health, understanding health not only as the absence of disease, but as the correct balance between mental, spiritual, physical, and emotional health.
Talent retention
Once the workspace is sustainable and generates well-being, the foundations will have been laid to attract, retain and retain talent. Business challenges require talent committed to the project, trained and motivated, and companies are investing in generating culture, incorporating technology, responding to the new hybrid world, creating new spaces that are inspiring and motivating. The goal is for the employees to make the spaces and their configuration their own, according to their needs, improving their commitment and talent retention.
To retain that talent and avoid phenomena like “silent quitting”, it is essential to invest in the people and places they use. It is not just about putting the person at the center, but about putting people’s quality of life as a starting point.
inclusive offices
Inclusion, by age, gender, origin and abilities, must be a pillar in any company, which each must design and manufacture with the ‘silver economy’ in mind: the mature population, with purchasing power and free time. They will also have to promote the diversity of profiles and functional diversity, with spaces designed for people with neurodivergence and neuroarchitecture.
healthy furniture
All these spaces must have comfortable, ergonomic and healthy furniture. An example of this is the new A+S Work chair entrusted to Alegre Design, whose design process has prioritized ergonomics to cover the greatest possible diversity of people in terms of height and weight.
“Offices are not going to disappear, what has changed is the experience we want to live in them. Today there is a demand for a workspace that provides different experiences: work, learning, social connection, personal well-being, collaboration or creativity. We all want to feel the same, that the environment cares for us, motivates us, and makes us feel good and important. It is we, the people, who decide how to use it. It is no longer the person who adapts to the space, but the other way around. At Actiu, we want to help people through our designs, which take into account new ways of living, working and inhabiting. All within a purpose of respect for the planet and in a sustainable way”, points out Soledat Berbegal, Actiu’s Director and Head of Corporate Reputation.
