We’re well aware of some of the challenges involved in getting your staff to fall back in love with office working, after two years of the new normal. Yet there are many benefits of returning to the workplace, including greater collaboration and the opportunity to re-connect with your team, let’s face it MS Teams only goes so far!

LCMB preach resource optimisation and sustainability in order to improve workplace performance, and so we’ve made improvements to our own working space, which align with our ethos, and create a space that inspires our staff.

To that end, we’ve removed the existing partition walls to create an open workspace which has increased the light coming into the office, as we have windows on the 3 sides of the space.

Zones have been created to denote, task working, large meetings, breakout spaces and a number of meeting pods have also been included.

We’d made some practical yet impactful decisions including installation of a new ventilation system, air quality monitors and reconfigured the existing air con system to ensure the environment remains at an optimum level for our staff. We have also installed low energy LED lighting to help reduce our energy consumption and impact on the environment. 

Part of this journey was also about maximising the space to suit individual needs of our team and so additional extras such as a shower room was added for those that travel to work by bike or on foot or for those who’d like to go for a run during breaks.