Commercial Architects at OTJ Share Four New Year’s Design Resolutions Improving Business

Organizations are shifting toward work environments that accommodate all types of employees and working styles by creating open environments that inspire ideas and increase productivity. As a result, employers are seeing the benefits of increased employee morale, talent retention and improved outside business relations.

Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) January 10, 2013

In todays world, companies have to accommodate greater innovation, increased technology and different generations of employees all in one workspace, said Lance Jaccard, Partner at OTJ Architects. This can be challenging as generational gaps and varying functionalities between departments can provide different expectations and styles of working.

In an effort to help businesses with their 2013 initiatives, the architecture consultants at OTJ have come up with four New Years design resolutions that are proven to improve recruitment strategies, employee retention, employee motivation and outside business relations.

1.Enhance your brand by developing a keen understanding of who you are and where you want to go as a company.

2.Understand your employees wellbeing and decide which work styles would work best. The traditional office model doesnt work for everyone anymore, which is becoming more evident with the generational shift occurring in the workplace right now.

3.Make every employee a brand champion by reinforcing your message through the design highlighted by the new model. People want to work for brands they admire.

4.Be unique and set industry standards when it comes to an environment that contains a purpose behind everything. Clients and prospective employees then become more interested, while other businesses take notice and try to learn from what you have done.

What most companies are discovering is that as people spend more and more time at work, they are looking for a functional place where they can be themselves, Jaccard said. Our experience has shown people feel secure in an environment that is comfortable, and if they are able to manage their workspace, they feel more engaged and are likely to stay there longer.

Countless workplace surveys on the best places to work also see things like fun as the most commonly used word and key driver used by employees and management to describe what constitutes a better workplace. In an article by CiteHR, some businesses have even seen about a 150 percent retention increase once a workplace has transitioned to this increasingly popular workplace model.

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Commercial Architects at OTJ Share Four New Year’s Design Resolutions Improving Business