You want to expand, but your office space is bursting at the seams. When their business is changing shape, rather than commit to fixed overheads, agile companies bring people together off-site in serviced meeting rooms or business lounges, or remotely through teleconferencing.
On an average day, a staggering 55% of office desks are unoccupied. Task-focused, collaborative ways of working mean employees spend more time in meetings, so if your office is a sea of empty chairs and teams have to hold huddles in coffee shops, it’s time to rethink your workspace.
One hundred and eight minutes. That’s the average time that city-based workers spend travelling each day. It keeps them from their families, and affects their diet and their health. No wonder 66% of employees would consider a pay cut in return for more flexible working conditions – an arrangement that benefits businesses too, through higher morale, lower staff turnover and increased productivity.
A 30% reduction in floor space delivers a 30% reduction in energy consumption, so cutting back office space and offering flexible working is a business no-brainer. Switching to cloud services to remove IT infrastructure and power-guzzling servers, and reducing air, road and train miles through teleconferencing and using local business hubs are other routes to a leaner, greener business.
Smart managers recognise that more hours spent sitting behind a desk doesn’t equal better work. They trust that with the right processes and technology in place, a flexible working culture can deliver results. Research bears this out – 76% of smaller businesses report that increased productivity is a direct result of flexible working practices.
It’s only a chair, but it could be costing your business over £13,500 a year in wasted floor space. When landlines and PCs tethered workers to their desk, acres of office space were a must-have. But now that cloud and mobile technology enables ‘any time, anywhere’ working, under-utilised space is a costly anachronism.
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