Colliers and Exploratist launches “FutureFit Offices”, a solution for creating flexible, customized workspaces that increase team collaboration

Colliers, a global leader in real estate consultancy services, together with Exploratist, the first local employee experience agency in Romania, launch “FutureFit Offices. Empowering Human-Tech Synergy”, an innovative solution for creating a customized workspace that is up to 30% more efficient, technologically advanced and environmentally friendly, but also more adaptable to new ways of working.

Designed to stimulate creativity, innovation and unconventional thinking, FutureFit Offices helps increase productivity by up to 15% and employee satisfaction, with a direct impact on company performance and on the employer brand.

Innovations in technology, social and cultural developments, demographic change, globalization, and pandemics are all changing the priorities for people and companies. The new working models focus on the quality of the employee experience and prioritize flexibility and versatility, remote working, personalisation of workspace, intensive use of technology, sustainability and put a strong emphasis on employee well-being, collaboration and innovation, diversity and inclusion, and learning and development. So, more than a physical space, the office becomes a working environment, a state of mind, a place where humanity and technology meet and create the human experiences needed for people to excel in their work.

“New and evolving ways of working demand flexible, versatile and user-friendly workspace configurations. Whereas before, companies focused on how efficiently they can use office space, now the discussion is about how employees feel at work, and the concern is about how to create an attractive working atmosphere. Individual offices will cover less than 30% of the total floor space, as the focus will be on collaboration, social and relaxation areas, which we estimate will cover more than 70% of the floor space in most companies. Adding to the already complex challenges faced by organizations in this office optimization process is the fact that each company is unique in its business, its organizational culture and the way it works. We therefore looked for a solution to optimize the process of adapting companies to the requirements of the future. We are pleased to create the FutureFit solution together with Exploratist, specialists in employee experience design. Together, we strategically rethink the way each organization works in order to design and implement innovative and efficient solutions, tailored to the needs and specifics of each company and its employees, so that they are always fit for the future”, says Victor Cosconel, Director, Head of Office & Industrial Agencies, Colliers Romania.

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Bringing together the expertise of real estate consulting and employee experience specialists to create a complete solution for corporate offices that covers all the business needs of organizations, “FutureFit Offices. Empowering Human-Tech Synergy” is a holistic, agile and versatile solution that addresses current challenges and future needs in the office market. In this way, Colliers and Exploratist create a customized workspace that respects both space needs and priorities – cost, facilities, design and design solutions -, and people and employee experience – well-being, collaboration, creativity, respect, values, belonging, diversity or inclusion.

“People perform well if they feel good. So, focusing on people and improving the employee experience is one of FutureFit Offices’ strengths. It’s very important to provide employees with a workspace with facilities that create optimal and flexible conditions for them to work and grow, connect them to the values and culture of the organization, give them a sense of belonging and community, and consider who they are, not just what they know and can do. Employee experience has a direct impact on the business: it increases company performance and employer brand credibility, talent attraction and retention, effectiveness of diversity and inclusion efforts, ability to innovate and many other related business objectives. The partnership between Exploratist and Colliers is the first of its kind in Romania and we have great confidence in our collaboration because our complementary expertise allows us to develop truly holistic solutions and meet the broad and varied space and business needs of companies on a long-term basis”, points out Mirela Tănase, Senior Partner Strategy & Sales, Exploratist.

Modular design and implementation in 4 steps

The benefits of the integrated solution developed by Colliers and Exploratist include space optimisation by 30%, increased office return rates, increased ability to adapt to technological changes and new ways of working, improved employee experience, increased environmental performance and reduced environmental impact.

Also, by improving the employee experience, FutureFit Offices leads to 40% more collaboration, 15% higher productivity and 40% higher NPS (Net Promoter Score?). In addition, recent research suggests that happy employees sell 37% more and are 3 times more creative, and engaged employees perform 21% better. Impacting multiple business goals at the same time, FutureFit Offices contribute significantly to reducing companies’ operating costs.

In other words, through FutureFit Offices, the two teams of experts create a dynamic space that can be easily adapted to different ways of working and optimized according to the different priorities of companies – to foster performance and creativity, the use of technology, the need to work both collaboratively and individually, to support the work of global as well as growing companies, to facilitate mentoring or networking activities, to support sustainability, convenience and accessibility.

For convenience and efficiency, Colliers and Exploratist have divided the FutureFit Offices solution development and implementation process into 4 stages: analysis, strategy, implementation and transition support. This way, companies will benefit from the expertise of specialists from the beginning to the end of the implementation, and will also benefit from guidance and assistance in managing such an important change for the organization.