6 Criteria to Create an Innovative, Efficient, and Creative Workspace!

Work environment can be a determining factor in the productivity of employees as well as their daily motivation. Workspaces are where we spend most of our time and days. It is therefore important to analyze the environment, its well-being, its layout, its stations, and employee equipment. Creating a pleasant corporate culture conducive to productivity is a real opportunity for all stakeholders in a business.

Prioritize the Organization of Work with Furniture

Initially, we must analyze and simplify the administrative organization in order to standardize and prioritize the tasks ordered at all levels. Many techniques and processes allow these improvements, such as 5S methodologies. The Lean Office is a state of mind, it encompasses the organization of work, the layout of offices and rooms, ergonomics, and much more!
It has been shown that it is easier to be efficient and creative in a well-organized environment than in a tidy and organized space. Whether at home or in the office, tidying up and sorting are essential for a good personal organization or that of a department. You lose less time looking for the right document or the right tool, so you are up and running much faster. Simplifying administrative tasks, reducing waste, including the loss of time, and better organization are all necessary components for the proper functioning of a business. It suffices to set up a collective process that is anchored in the culture of the company.

Ergonomics and Well-Being Above All!

Optimization must also include the notion of ergonomics through office furniture. This is a necessity for the well-being of all individuals at work and for productivity. It also reduces work-related accidents, illnesses, and/or pain (MSDs).
This investment can directly affect the increase in the occupancy rate at work, the optimization of work and can also have an effect on the decrease in turnover. It is necessary to identify the postures and the necessary equipment for each employee, team etc. The ergonomics can be integrated by the adjustable seats, the screen supports adapted to the necessary distance between the eye and the screen. We must not forget to combine technologies in the process of ergonomics. More and more companies are also opting for height adjustable workstations, because we are not meant to sit idle for 6 to 10 hours a day. For example, the electric office is totally adapted to the ergonomics approach. This dynamic is part of the Lean Office, which supports well-being, health and innovation in the working conditions of each individual according to their specific needs.

Why a Space for Creativity?

The creativity space is an important space to promote internal innovation. This promotes brainstorming, the creative dynamic within a team, a department. This collective space will allow employees to have new ideas, promote discussion and innovate. The place, place, size, layout of the room are all factors that influence efficiency and productivity.
In any type of position, creative thinking is necessary. Although it is not required and necessary to be creative for all business professions, creative stimulation in particular makes it possible to be more flexible and versatile. When there is a problem, or when you are looking for continuous improvement, being creative allows you to find solutions faster or in a more innovative way.

The space dedicated to creation is not necessarily a room or a place specifically assigned to the "creativity space". It is fully convertible and modular. Open spaces and offices can be arranged directly without disturbing individuals. The design will naturally integrate the creative process within the departments and the culture of the company. It is all the more motivating to have a new, more stylish office layout and new “lean” tools that simplify the organization of work.
In addition, open spaces can have a harsh limitations. Arranging space and energizing places, offices and services can really improve the workspace for everyone.

The Creative Space is a Place of Sharing and Learning

It is important, to promote exchanges and comfort, that the furniture is dynamic and modular to create a friendly space by integrating digital for better collaborative work. The creativity space brings innovation, initiative and collective intelligence.
Workspaces are also a showcase for corporate culture. If the layout and premises are designed for the well-being of your employees, this will be felt immediately. During a client, supplier or recruitment meeting, the environment plays a big role. It can reflect to your interlocutor the capacity of your company to reinvent itself. The premises can be representative of innovative work or management methodologies. The candidate can then project himself, a partner or a client can more simply give confidence and identify that the values of your company are very well applied and shared.

6 characteristics for setting up a creative space

• Movement: Create a space that allows it to be flexible, to adapt to any type of exchange and configuration. For brainstorming, we'll be more on a team setup around a table or board. The room must be able to be modular for each type of use.
• Design: Colors influence our creativity, and that is well known! The same goes for the shapes or the layout of a room, feeling at ease and comfortable to be even more creative. The capacity for investment of reflection, creation is very correlated with the design which has an effect on the work processes.
• Lighting: Adapt the lighting to the environment, ensure that it is not too aggressive for everyone's eyes.
• Sound volume: the creativity space is a place of exchange; the installation of acoustic panels makes it possible to be integrated into the creativity space without being disturbed by the surrounding noise. A "creativity space" can effectively be used as a team or individually. The creativity space can be seen as mini workshops. Each individual uses it in their own way in order to improve creation, thinking and concentration. This allows ideas to emerge or to be more productive. It is therefore necessary to be able to respect each "workshop" whether in group or individual.
• Ergonomics: An essential point for the well-being of all, also allowing dynamic positions to activate or stimulate production. It makes it possible to integrate a dynamic process for each individual. The ergonomic needs are all different according to the workstations, offices, collaborators, rooms, places, it is therefore necessary to analyze all the spaces and their use.
• Technology: Digital tools are an integral part of spaces of creativity, they are necessary for reflection, sharing and exchanges between employees, they should not be neglected! For brainstorming, meetings between departments, it is interesting to adopt a technological medium, such as a digital board in order to promote exchange and communication. The table can also be physical however the actions can be more limited than from a technological tool.

All these points are essential criteria to accompany and create a motivating and dynamic environment in the company.