We’re experienced workplace strategy consultants
We’ve successfully introduced radical workplace strategies at some of the world’s biggest companies.
What we do as workplace strategy consultants
We work with C-suite leaders to answer two questions:
- What is your business trying to achieve?
- What role does the workplace play?
We optimise the use of office space and workplace technology to deliver increased worker productivity and create enhanced workplace experiences for your staff, aligned to your overall future workplace strategy and vision.
How we deliver successful workplace transformation strategies
An evidence-based, tailored workplace strategy will make your business more effective. We’ll help you discover and implement the best workplace designs, technologies and practices for your needs and support your staff so they can work efficiently.
Develop the future workplace vision
We discuss the organisation’s goals and the challenges it faces with your leadership team in order to create a vision of what the future workplace could look like.
Understand what’s happening
The next step is to discover how your company currently operates. This involves analysing what your staff do day-to-day.
Assess the workplace data
The combined information is analysed to provide us with an understanding of how work gets done. The data is then entered into a space modelling tool to show how the workplace could be adapted, depending on your business priorities. This essential step not only accounts for peaks and troughs in staff attendance throughout the week, but anticipates how developments in technology, such as AI, will impact the size, nature and structure of your organisation.
Visualise the future
Sometimes it’s hard to imagine the revolutionary effect of a newly refitted workplace, so our in-house designer provides concept drawings of the proposed layouts.
Principles for the future
In collaboration with senior management, we produce company-specific playbooks so that our evidence-based results can be replicated across departments and across continents.
Why is it important to have a workplace strategy?
The workplace strategy process plays a crucial role in determining how successful your business will be. After all, an organisation is only as effective as the people it employs. A holistic workplace strategy will build trust with employees and empowers people to be as productive as possible by enabling them to dedicate their time to achieving results, rather that overcoming inbuilt obstacles.
A workplace strategy maximises the available space to accommodate the contrasting needs of different teams and workstyles. For example, a workplace should not only include quiet focus zones for independent work, but collaborative spaces where people can come together to share ideas.
The battle to recruit and retain staff is more competitive than ever. A high-quality workplace creates excellent workplace experiences for employees. Get it right and your workplace becomes a key asset. Get it wrong and you’ll miss out on the best brains.
Our approach to workplace strategy reflects keys industry trends:
- Most workspaces were only fully utilised approximately half of the time before the pandemic.
- The number of people working remotely, flexibly or hybrid will rise further in the coming years.
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of workers think their home environment enables them to work productively – compared to less than 63% for the average office
- Empty offices are bad for business – they not only cost money, but erode team cohesion and productivity.
What makes us the leading workplace strategy consultancy?
At AWA, we’ve been helping organisations transform their workplaces for more than 30 years.
Scientific research and in-depth knowledge of neuroscience underpin our approach to workplace strategy. We use the six factors we have identified to matter most for high performing teams to assess whether your workplace is fit for purpose. We also run one of the world’s largest hybrid working indexes, tracking the evolution of hybrid working strategies and office rate attendance.
Traditional methods for modelling and managing space occupancy are limited and don’t address the complexity of the modern workforce. Hybrid working brings enormous opportunities, but these can only be fulfilled by ensuring the technology is in place for employees to collaborate from several locations at once.
Here are some more reasons why we’re uniquely well-placed to assist your organisation:
- We understand the challenges your business faces, but don’t arrive with pre-conceived solutions.
- We tailor our approach to match the needs of your company.
- Decades of experience have made our agile team experts in the field.
- We’re independent and have associates and offices around the world, so we can be relied upon to deliver industry-leading advice that incorporates local sensitivities.
- We are focused on revolutionising the world of work and our track record speaks for itself. For example, we saved WTW $100m per year. Learn about some of the workplace strategies we have successfully overseen by reading the case studies below.
