When you ask your employees how they want the workspace to be, it’s a mixed bag – some want the quiet, undisturbed nook where they can focus on their projects without uninvited interventions from the rest of the workforce while some prefer the bustle of an open office where they can openly communicate and collaborate with different teams and departments working on the project.

Between collaboration and the quiet, if there is an ideal arrangement, we are determined to find it.

According to the folks at HLW International Location, Enclosure, Exposure, Technology, Temporality, Perspective and Size are the seven attributes you need to consider to understand what office design works best for your business.

Peter Bacevice, Liz Burow and Mat Triebner from HLW International write for the Harvard Business Review.

7 Factors of Great Office Design

Smart companies understand that workspaces are a business tool. An office environment reflects and reinforces a business’s core values, through the placement of different teams and functions and design elements that reflect culture, brand, and values.

For example, we’ve seen an explosion of open office layouts, in part because openness, transparency, and collaboration are some of the attributes companies strive for today. Sometimes these designs work well; however, research shows that this collaborative push may be too much of a good thing.
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