Never had the return to work been so unpredictable. In the last year and a half, the boundaries of what was considered a traditional workspace have expanded. Today, this return after the holidays is open to multiple possibilities: the office, the home office, coworkings and work areas in hotels and cafes.
The place from which you work may change but not the standards of comfort, functionality, ergonomics and, above all, well-being. Requirements also extendable to learning places after the summer break.
To the imperatives of safety, hygiene and social distance, is added the need to implement agile methodologies, able to respond to new needs. Thus, whatever the place, it must be equipped with furniture and equipment that promotes well-being and provides tools that improve the daily lives of those who use them.
This need for well-being is common for offices, homes and third parties, such as leisure and work-oriented places, such as hotels, which have gained importance in recent years. The three options coexist and feed back into this new reality.
Comfortable and Agile spaces
If individual work requires the necessary conditions of concentration, privacy, and comfort, teamwork needs areas to share ideas safely and comfortably. Actiu has materialized their knowledge and experience in this field in their Cool Working® model, a support process for companies, which helps them to configure their workspaces in the most efficient and diverse way possible, as they do not no two projects are alike.
For Active, workspaces, regardless of where they are located, require solutions that solve multiple requirements and allow optimizing each square meter. To do this, it has developed new elements that help to adapt the space in a simple and efficient way, according to the different activities that take place throughout a working day.
Functional pieces based on this premise of adaptability and care of people who consider elements such as mobile panels – which can serve as a blackboard -, side tables, stands and decorative sound-absorbing panels. Using these elements, in just a few minutes, you can separate a meeting area from an open workspace and even create an area for spontaneous interactions, which help to ignite the creative spark, without disturbing the concentration of the rest of the team.
Technology and use of outdoor spaces
These elements complement the solutions designed and manufactured for Active’s professional environments, which in recent times have addressed increasingly diverse areas of action. This is the case of the INOUT concept of Active, developed in collaboration with SINMAS studio, designed to equip multipurpose environments, both indoor and outdoor, which accommodate various tasks in everyday life.
Its scope ranges from cafes that serve for impromptu meetings to hotel rooms where you review an urgent report or passing areas in which to sit and hold a video call. In all cases, it is necessary to take care of the well-being of the users, through the furniture and, also, of the management of the spaces, to ensure optimal conditions of parameters like the light, the ventilation, the temperature and the humidity. , through tools such as Gaia by Actiu®.
Technology, comfort and functionality lay the foundations of well-being in this return to hybrid and shared-use work, where ensuring well-being is essential to foster reflection and ideas and drive collaborative projects from anywhere.