If you're in the C-Suite, an human resources or facilities design professional or facilities manager you will find this presentation valuable in enhancing your leadership efforts. What are the secrets to designing great offices and workplaces while cultivating active, engaged cultures? In this presentation we share best practices to help energize your workplace, improve attraction and retention all the while telling your brand story, connecting to greater sustainability initiatives and more. Your people are your biggest expenses. You can improve engagement and productivity by tuning your office design to the DNA of your business, your mission, purpose and core values. We call this the values driven design framework. We learn together about your DNA, what makes your company go and your vision for success, your mission and core values. We take that information and identify best practices in workplace design strategies to optimize collaboration and an innovation mindset while providing much needed private, focus spaces, meeting areas and individual work areas. Some trends we think vital to pay attention to are: 1. Get your people moving: Providing a wide range of sit to stand options at workstations and work areas, to battle the rising obesity epidemic at work. This helps keep your teams moving. 2. Choices at Work: Provide a wide range of open to more private work areas matched to differing modes of work needing to be done by your people. This includes small one to two person phone booths or huddle rooms, to informal backyard areas, front yard areas, high top worksurfaces shared by a workgroup, as well as individual workstations. 3. Bring nature near. Numerous studies show the presence of indoor plants and so call living walls promote worker wellbeing and enhance productivity. Balance interior planting with access to outdoor work areas or "work terraces", walking paths for exercise and walking meetings. See item 1. Get your people moving. Interested in learning more? Need a design consultation or want to see this presentation adapted to your organization? Contact us at 802-448-0056 or drop us a line at steve@arocordisdesign.com. Find us also at www.arocordis.com

1. PASSION | PURPOSE |
MEANING
Work, Workers, Workplace
A point of view
Stephen M. Frey, AIA – Principal, Arocordis Design
architecture | interiors | workplace
June 10, 2015

2. Origins & backstory

3. Purpose
Passion
Meaning
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Where are we going?
Corn leaf Cell, Schulte©
Off-shoring
Wellness & wellbeing
Vermont brand &
global competition
Lack of right kinds of education for today’s jobs, let alone
tomorrows’

4. Your work today, but what about tomorrow?
Selling - Design – Making – Face to face – Remote work
– Heads down analysis – Team based work – Monitoring
transactions
Customer service calls – Troubleshooting – Coaching –
Mentoring
Brainstorming – Programming – Fixing stuff –
Collaboration
Coding – Outdoors – Indoors – Meetings– Walking -
Standing
Sitting – Watching & Observation – Planning –

5. BABY BOOMERS 1946 to
1964
=
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It’s a generational thing, or is it?
=
Purpose
Passion
Meaning

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

7. 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
Anobesityepidemic….
VT

8. Sedentary behaviorisrising
“ 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.”

9. How can cultivating an active work culture
help?

10. Thesevenfacesofwellnessinworkplacedesign
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

11. The Active Workplace builds engagement by
design
A spectrum of choices, from sedentary to active
movement and beyond.
Tuning spaces: Customize architecture,
layout, furniture to business, physical and
technology needs
SIT TO
STAND
SITTING STANDINGLOUNGING
&
PERCHING
MOVING
S E D E N T A R Y A C T I V E C A R D I O

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

15. Movement & Sociable spaces

16. Open work areas & hotel spaces

17. Backyards & huddle rooms

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

19. NationalLifeGroup HQ Modernization Project
• Hillside campus location
• 700+ people
• 3 business units
• 250,000 sf (1958 part)
• Mission driven
• Long term view
• Local and national
• Face to face and remote
work
• Telepresence, virtual

20. An out of date workplace – “before”

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

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

23. 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,
beauty

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

25. Plan concept, circulation &
nodes

26. FrontYards

27. Collaboration zones & backyards

28. Lighting upgrade – work areas

29. Branding graphics
reinforcing mission
core values, story

30. Stairs as wellness space

31. Planters / living walls / nature near

32. Renovated cafeteria servery & dining

33. Restrooms for wellbeing

34. PASSION | PURPOSE |
MEANING
Work, Workers, Workplace
A point of view
Stephen M. Frey, AIA – Principal, Arocordis Design
architecture | interiors | workplace
June 10, 2015

35. Thank you!
Photographers
we’d like to thank:
Carolyn Bates Photography
Jim Westphalen Photography
Gary Hall Photography
(others by Stephen Frey, various)
For more from us:
Arocordis Design
info@arocordisdesign.com
www.Arocordis.com
802-448-0056 voice
@arocordisdesign
88 Phillips Road
Montpelier, VT 05602