{"id":3665,"date":"2019-04-11T10:50:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T09:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futuramo.com\/blog\/?p=3665"},"modified":"2019-04-11T10:55:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T09:55:51","slug":"6-innovative-ways-companies-using-improve-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futuramo.com\/blog\/6-innovative-ways-companies-using-improve-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Innovative Ways Companies are using to Improve Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What makes an office space great? The answer is not that simple. It requires a lot of analysis about the work and people in a workplace.\u00a0It depends on your company\u2019s culture, diversity of employees, nature of work and employees preferences. Success follows automatically if office environment is right.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3667\" src=\"https:\/\/futuramo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image001.jpg\" alt=\"6 Innovative Ways Companies are using to Improve Productivity\" width=\"682\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a challenge for facility managers and other decision makers of a company to get the right workplace for their employees. How can they set up a workplace that\u2019s not just a place to employ all employees but one that\u2019s a strategic tool for production, teamwork, and growth?<br \/>\nMajor workplace trends just don\u2019t evolve overnight. There are people and organization who constantly works to achieve it. After lots of changes, failure and success they come up with some innovative ideas to improve a workplace. It\u2019s a constant process.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s discuss some proven innovative ways to make a workplace better for employee\u2019s collaboration and productivity:<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"create-some-overlap-zones-in-office\"><strong>Create some overlap zones in office<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>According to the recent research, creating opportunity for unplanned interactions among employees improves performance. Design your office in such a way that increases the likelihood of meeting different employees without any planning.<br \/>\nThe idea of overlap zone might not sound great but it\u2019s proven to inspire collaboration. Overlap zones are those areas of an office where employees are likely to run into each other.<br \/>\nFor designing these highly interactive overlap zones you need to analyze a lot about your employee behaviors. How do your employees go from a place to another in the office? Where do they go frequently Washrooms, Cafeteria and or water cooler? What sort of spaces causes them to run into each other more frequently?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3668\" src=\"https:\/\/futuramo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image002.jpg\" alt=\"6 Innovative Ways Companies are using to Improve Productivity\" width=\"666\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once you find the answers to above question then you can easily think of the changes to be made to create overlap zones in your workplace.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"unreserved-seating-plan-or-hot-desking\"><strong>Unreserved seating plan or hot-desking<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Many bigger employers are using hot-desking these days. It\u2019s a concept of unreserved seating arrangements in which an employee can sit wherever he wants. Thanks to portable laptops and wireless internet to make hot-desking really hot.<br \/>\nIn hot-desking there are no desks assigned to anybody. When the employee comes to work in the morning they can sit anywhere and start their work. From open desks to more public spaces like couches and bean bags are the part of hot-desking concept. For effective working of this concept, a company must take special care while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortuneprops.com\/blog\/how-open-plan-office-space-design-affects-employees-productivity\">designing their office spaces<\/a> so that employee can move from one place to another without any problem.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3669\" src=\"https:\/\/futuramo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image003.jpg\" alt=\"6 Innovative Ways Companies are using to Improve Productivity\" width=\"686\" height=\"368\" \/><br \/>\nHot-desking might not be a good idea for few businesses so you need to act only after analyzing every pros and cons of it.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"design-and-implement-a-superdesk\"><strong>Design and implement a superdesk<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Designing office around the concept of open office is in trends these days. What about designing a shared desk for all employees?\u00a0Superdesk concept is getting popularity recently. Bigger companies are now spending time and money in developing super desks where all employees can sit together to work and collaborate.\u00a0Private discussion rooms can be added in a workplace in order to provide quieter space to some employees in need.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"have-a-music-room-in-office\"><strong>Have a music room in office<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Music can boost employee\u2019s productivity and set a positive company culture. Sometimes employees need a break to blow off the work pressure and what\u2019s better than the music?\u00a0For a musically inclined person, music rooms can be the real stress buster. It\u2019s the demand of great work culture to design a super soundproof music room in the company. Employees can go to the music room alone or in groups to play the music and get energized.<br \/>\nThe best example of this music rooms in office is Linkedin headquarter in Mountain View, California. They have a great music room with high-end musical instruments like drums, keyboards, guitars, microphone stands, AV equipment and even stage lightings.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"allow-pets-in-the-office\"><strong>Allow pets in the office<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>It can be a topic of discussion that an employer should allow pets in the office or not? But there are many companies that allow employees to bring their pets to work these days.\u00a0Allowing pets in the office can help employees to improve their work-life balance and helps them to get rid of stress.\u00a0It requires some changes in the office space to accommodate pets comfortably. You have to invest additionally for those pets in order to please your employees.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3670\" src=\"https:\/\/futuramo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image004.jpg\" alt=\"6 Innovative Ways Companies are using to Improve Productivity\" width=\"593\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"plants-greenery-in-the-office\"><strong>Plants &amp; greenery in the office<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Who don\u2019t like the plants, natural lights, and greenery? According to the latest research, adding plants and greenery in a workplace can increase the productivity of employees by 15%.\u00a0Some companies started investing in plants and greenery around the office to make their employees happy and healthy. For example, Google&#8217;s office in Tel Aviv, Israel has an indoor orange grove. It makes Google employees feel that they are sitting outside in a park.In addition to greenery natural light is very important for employee\u2019s health. Natural lights do a great job in reducing eye strains.<\/p>\n<p>So these are the latest design trends in office spaces for providing better working conditions to your employees. You might not be able to implement all but starting with few can give you the better results.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Author Bio<\/em><br \/>\n<em> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3671\" src=\"https:\/\/futuramo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sahaana-jai.jpg\" alt=\"Sahaana Jai\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/futuramo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sahaana-jai.jpg 200w, https:\/\/futuramo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sahaana-jai-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><strong>Sahaana<\/strong><strong>\u00a0Jai<\/strong> is a content Writer at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.furnishedofficebangalore.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Furnished Office Bangalore<\/a>, an Corporate Real Estate brokerage firm providing specialized services in property management, corporate leasing, online property services, investment and transaction Management.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What makes an office space great? 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