How is AI-driven Design Revolutionizing Office Spaces in Singapore?
“AI is the new electricity.” – Andrew Ng, Co-founder of Google Brain and Coursera. A century ago, electricity transformed every aspect of human life – sparking innovation and reshaping daily routines. Today, AI is poised to do the same for the 21st century. Unlike electricity’s broad physical power, AI’s impact is deeply scientific and data-driven, […]
05 Key Lessons Your Workplace Can Take From The Retail Industry
Workplace design is at a pivotal moment. The office is no longer a mere container for desks and computers; it’s increasingly recognized as a dynamic ecosystem impacting productivity, culture, and talent attraction. Yet, for too long, workplace design has operated within its own self-referential bubble. To truly evolve and meet the demands of a rapidly […]
03 Ways to Implement Circularity in Commercial Real Estate
The commercial real estate industry is a significant consumer of materials globally, contributing to substantial waste generation and resource depletion. In India, for instance, the commercial real estate market is projected to grow significantly, with the office space segment alone accounting for about 40-45% of the total market. Consequently, the construction of commercial spaces demands […]
How Can You Revitalize Your Workplace with the Evolution of Experiential Design?
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” – Steve Jobs As workplaces continue to evolve in response to hybrid models, shifting employee expectations, and redefined real estate dynamics, businesses are reimagining what an office should be. Gone are the days when workplaces were purely functional spaces. […]
What’s the Secret to a Truly Inclusive Office?
Inclusivity as a value should be a top priority in every aspect of our lives, including our workplaces. Workplaces are melting pots of ideas, with employees from diverse backgrounds collaborating on projects. Thus, it is essential to make each employee feel valued and appreciated. Let’s face it- nobody thrives in a place where they feel […]
What Are the Benefits of Using Raw Materials in Office Spaces?
Ready to bring nature’s wild side into your workspace with raw materials and organic forms that showcase the true artistry of the natural world? Exposed bricks, raw metal, exposed concrete, and natural wood and their counterparts are making a chic comeback, and this time it is not just for the vibes. Incorporating raw materiality into […]
04 Emerging Office Design Trends in India and Southeast Asia
Office spaces in India and Southeast Asia are undergoing a metamorphosis, a vibrant evolution that’s as dynamic as the cities they call home. From the bustling metropolises of Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Singapore to the rising stars of Kuala Lumpur and Hyderabad, a new era of workplace design is emerging, one that’s as bold and ambitious […]
How Can WELL HSR Enhance Your Workplace’s Resilience and Response?
Imagine heading into the office feeling sluggish, with fluorescent lights overhead draining your energy. Distractions abound, the air feels stale, and by lunchtime, your focus is already fading. Now, picture this: you walk into a bright, airy workspace filled with natural light and a fresh vibe. There are quiet nooks for focused work and collaborative […]
How to Make Workplaces More LGBTQIA+ Inclusive?
“Inclusion is not bringing people into what already exists; it is making a new space, a better space for everyone.” – George Dei Inclusion isn’t just about fitting people into pre-existing molds; it’s about transforming environments to welcome and celebrate everyone. For workplaces, this means designing spaces that reflect and support the diverse identities of […]
Top 05 Design Strategies for Achieving LEED Certified Workspaces
The adoption of LEED certification is on the rise globally and is making strides in the commercial real estate industry. LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is a globally recognized certification system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) that stands for leadership in energy and environmental design. It sets a framework […]
How Can Organizations Design for Neurodiversity in the Workplace?
29-year-old Malik, a talented graphic designer, often grapples with a profound sense of disconnection and feels undervalued at work. Despite his undeniable talent and boundless creativity, the cacophony of ringing phones and clattering keyboards in his open-plan office disrupts his concentration, leaving him adrift and unsettled. Aisha, 35, a Senior Financial Analyst, battles with sensory […]
How to Transform Your Employee Experience with WELL Light Concept?
Light, a fundamental driver of both visual and circadian systems, holds the power to shape our health and well-being. While the choice of lighting plays a pivotal role in shaping the office environment, poorly designed lighting can significantly impact the well-being and performance of your employees. The adverse outcomes of inadequate and inappropriate lighting at […]
Top 08 Workplace Design Trends for your Organizational Transformation in 2024
In the dynamic landscape of the next-gen workplaces, the ethos of design, functionality, spatial experience and employee expectations have undergone a radical transformation. Thus, the interplay between human-centricity, sustainability, space utility and technological integration has set an ambitious stage to explore the upcoming influencing factors shaping up the design language for 2024 and beyond. Transformation […]
How to Fulfill ESG Goals and Elevate Business Through High Performance Community-Centric Workplaces?
Every built space holds a varied community connected through social ties, shared experiences, and communal areas. These aspects wield significant influence over individual well-being, underscoring their pivotal role in the meticulous planning of workplace environments. Simultaneously, the contemporary business landscape demands the integration of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles within operational frameworks, serving as […]
Why Are Innovative Materials Crucial to Revolutionize Workplace Wellness?
Designing spaces that prioritize human well-being isn’t just about aesthetics; it’s about crafting environments that empower and nurture those within them. Materials form the core of this environment that impacts human lives every day, every moment. They form the fundamental framework of any interior space, influencing its ambiance, functionality, and comfort. The WELL Building Standard, […]
How to Improve Well-being at Work by Designing for Movement?
As work and workplaces are evolving, creating an environment that fosters employee well-being has become imperative. One key aspect of this equation is movement. Movement is intricately connected to all aspects of daily work life. Thus, the WELL Building Standard for Movement at Work promotes active physical activity in everyday life through environmental design, policies, […]
How To Achieve Employee Well-being with Spectacular Indoor Air Quality?
Workspace design is more than what meets the eye. The spatial quality of a workplace extends beyond physical aesthetics and layout. Beyond aesthetics, there’s an invisible symphony of non-tangible elements such as ambient temperature, lighting, acoustics, and air quality, that play a crucial role in crafting the perfect spatial experience. These elements, often overlooked, significantly […]
How Can Optimizing Acoustics Help Businesses Achieve a Productive and Tranquil Workspace?
Office acoustics is the scientific management of sound in a workplace, considering how it propagates, reflects, and affects individuals. Effective office acoustics can substantially boost productivity, mitigate stress, and elevate overall employee contentment. Conversely, subpar office acoustics can result in heightened distractions, difficulties in concentration, and increased stress levels. According to research conducted by Steelcase, […]
How Does Agile Workplace Design Optimize Business Performance?
The world of work is changing due to a convergence of technological advancements, evolving employee expectations, societal shifts, and the need for greater adaptability. Embracing transformation is essential for businesses to thrive in a rapidly evolving landscape and to create workplaces that cater to the diverse needs of their workforce. Agile Workplace Design has emerged […]
How Workplace Design Solutions Can Empower Organizations to Thrive in the Hybrid Era?
The rise of hybrid work models has revolutionized the way organizations operate, offering newfound flexibility and productivity. However, it also brings forth a unique set of challenges. It has also brought about a fundamental shift in the way work is conducted, with employees splitting their time between working on-site and remotely. Thus, thriving in the […]
Designing Focus Spaces: Boosting Productivity and Concentration in the Workplace
Employees with desk jobs get distracted every 10.5 minutes. This distraction can be caused by anything from a notification bell on the phone to relationship stress or an interruption from coworkers- all of which are inevitable. Once distracted, it takes an average of 23 minutes and 15 seconds for people to get their minds back […]
What are the 4 Emerging Environment-Friendly Materials for Future-Ready Workplace Design?
The idea and concepts of sustainability, net-zero design, and low-carbon impact footprint are evolving rapidly. This has led to a wave of changes especially in the commercial real estate sector, with businesses, developers, and workspace operators embracing eco-friendly materials and approaches. Global climate change movements like COP27 and regional initiatives like the Work Green Conclave […]
What Is Your GenZ Talent Looking For in the Workplace?
The influx of millennials in the workforce brought a wave of changes to the workplace design genre. Cubicles were replaced with open collaborative workspaces. There was a rise in the infusion of outdoor spaces in the offices, open pantries, phone booths, and quirky artworks that took place on the mundane office walls. Now, it’s time […]
How can Workplace Design Help You Build a Healthy and Safe Environment?
Research by the World Health Organization suggests every $1 invested in workplace health and employee well-being can yield a 4X return in terms of improved health and productivity. This highlights the importance of health and safety at work, as it can have a significant impact on the quality of life and workplace culture. Yet, as […]
Measuring Workplace Change: In Conversation with Kate Lister
From cellular workspaces to open plan workspaces, from physical collaborations to virtual collaborations, and from on-site working to hybrid working; the workplace industry has undergone a series of changes and modifications. There have been multiple factors influencing the changing fabric of our workplaces. Economic slowdowns, evolutions in technology, innovations in business modules, and even the […]
10 Best Performing Blogs on Workplace Design, People and Culture
2022 has been an introspective year for organizations. Leaders have felt the need to challenge the conventional and rethink workplaces in the context of people, performance, and design. The focus of workplace environment is evolving to be more engaging, technologically-relevant, experience-driven, and healthy. As an organization with a futuristic vision about workplaces, we have made […]
From Dull to Dynamic: Transforming the Office into A Place Where People Love to Be
“To return or not to return to offices?” Now, that’s a dilemma faced by the global workforce every day. People are in two minds about returning to offices since they have experienced the best of both worlds now. While remote working is excellent for heads-down productivity, working from the office enables collaboration, thereby helping people […]
Multifunctional Office Design for Maximizing Workspace Utility
Thinking of making your workspace future-relevant? Think multifunctional. Single-purpose spaces are past; it’s time for fluid, engaging, and dynamic offices. Image Courtesy: Udaan Multifunctional offices, considered a subset of open floor office planning, are associated with co-working, versatility, and liberty. Multifunctional office designs challenge the theory of “one-size-fits-all” and propose exclusivity in workspaces. Multi-purpose designs […]
How to Foster Employee Well-being Through Regenerative Workplaces?
“Is my workspace healthy, safe, and engaging?” This is the question today’s working population is asking themselves. Prolonged remote working due to the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a shift in employee needs. While working from home, the workforce felt isolated, misunderstood, and disconnected from their workplace. But, on the brighter side, they also enjoyed the […]
How An Agile and Flexible Design Can Enhance The Hybrid Workplace
Agility and flexibility are currently the trending buzzwords and have taken businesses by storm. Work has evolved in the new normal, with workflows becoming more agile and flexible. Work modes have now shifted to a pattern of working in iterations and prioritizing flexibility and collaboration. This shift in work is proven beneficial in boosting workforce […]
Making Way for The Next Generation Conference Rooms
A conference room is a heartland for collaboration and decision-making in an office. It is a shared space meant for strategizing and delivering ideas, both, to the team and the client. Today, irrespective of the enterprise scale, conference rooms have become an integral part of every business- fostering creativity in secured work environments. However, while […]
The Future Forward for IT Companies
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic made ‘work-from-home’ the new normal. Though the transition from an office-based workspace to a remote workspace was difficult, the IT industry set a shining example. The industry’s versatile work culture, tech-driven data systems, and progressive workforce made this switch feasible. Considering such agility of the IT industry, their return […]
How to Help the Aging Workforce Adapt to the New Age Workplace?
If we asked a diverse group of people to imagine an office space, everyone would have a different notion about it. Some would imagine a space with linear cubicles and cabins, while others would think of an open floor plan with an organic furniture layout; whereas some would think of bean bags and barstools. Various […]
What are the Holistic Methods to Design a Psychologically Safe Workplace?
Often workplace experience is associated with an “aesthetic” space, one with bold graphics, groovy colors, and fancy furniture. Is workplace experience limited to offering employees just an aesthetically beautiful workplace? Imagine working in a space that looks beautiful, but the lighting is bad, ventilation makes you feel suffocated, the desk height is adding to your […]
3 Myths to be Busted Before Implementing an ABW Plan
Before the pandemic, a typical workday for employees meant spending the whole day on assigned desks, cabins, or cubicles. But, with the inception of the new normal and the new age of working, the workplace is bound to undergo fundamental shifts. Moreover, even before Covid19, the work and workplaces saw seismic changes owing to the […]
Why Employee Experience is Linked to Organizational Success
The war for talent is real. Some of the world’s top organizations compete to hire valuable talent that fits their culture, talent that can be further nurtured into vital leadership roles that would help drive the organization’s mission successfully. An organization’s overall success is always directly tied to the brilliance of its individuals, making it […]
Re-utilization and Optimization of the Workplace – The Sustainable Workplace
The COVID 19 pandemic brought the world to its knees and for a moment there seemed like there would be no recovery. But the resilience of human strength persisted, and the world sprung back with a call for action to control the pandemic situation. Predictably, the workplace went through a radical change in terms of […]
How Design Can Help Us Formulate a Successful Brand Narrative
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Workplace design is a concept that goes beyond the physical design methodologies and contributes to a progressive business strategy. Balancing business and employee needs has always been the foremost focus at Zyeta. Thus, one of our core members, Smitha Naik Deshpande from Zyeta, Pune sheds light on empowering workspaces through human experiences and integrating […]
Drawing Parallels from Retail Design to Workplace Design
Design today has entered a new dimension and has spread to various genres. The core focus in design has shifted from physical aspects, like functionality or aesthetics to abstract aspects like user experience. Talking of workplace design, offices need to be ‘future-ready’; hence they need to be creative, adaptive, and more malleable. Workspace design does […]
How ‘Human-centric’ Design Offers a Business Advantage
People ignore design that ignores people” Frank Chimero -Designer When discussing work and workplaces—it eventually trickles down into the one more important element: people. Work happens with people, by people and around people. And the drive for organizations to chart the ladder comes directly from its people. A design that accommodates this, is ‘Human Centric’, […]
A Technologically Enhanced World
Post COVID-19, it is clear that technology will play a vital role in workplace transformation. However, truthfully, it has been on the cards for quite a while already. Zyeta has been involved in extensive industry research regarding the same and is now proud to bring you a series of expert interviews from renowned industry experts […]
The Correlation Between Design and Mental Wellbeing at Work
People spend one-third of their waking time in their workplaces, which is why office environments play a major role in employees’ lives as well as health. A workplace can contribute to a person’s physical and mental well-being in several ways. Work-culture, job role, office settings, and design materials; all play vital roles in influencing the […]
Pods, Privacy Strategies, and Home Like Interiors in Workplace Design
Between the whole ‘work from home’ and ‘get back to the office’ phase, people have gone through some trivial changes in their lifestyles that are apparent in the aftermath of the WFH sessions. And designs being a direct reflection of the real society, we see architecture and interior industries are processing those changes too. These […]
The Impacts of 5G and XR in Workplace Design- An Interview with Rohan Sharma
Post COVID-19, it is clear that technology will play a vital role in workplace transformation. However, truthfully, it has been on the cards for quite a while already. Zyeta has been involved in extensive industry research regarding the same and is now proud to bring you a series of expert interviews from renowned industry experts […]
Why Going Back to Office Is Indispensable by Shilpa Revankar
Yesterday, when I was on a con call with some of my clients, we faced some disturbances that made the call difficult and even awkward at times. There were pressure cooker whistles, internet disruptions, as well as doorbells ringing in the background, while we discussed some life-altering design ideas. Now, given the situation we are […]
Cubicles vs. Open Office- What Do You Prefer?
With new-age offices covering Silicon Valley, workspace design has started a new era. While the big companies are making statements with their millennial open offices, we still doubt that there will be a complete abolition of cubicles. In a recent online survey conducted by Team Zyeta about understanding workspaces better, we found that nearly 20 […]
Innovate. Create. Inspire – A New Era of Workplace Designs
To err is human and so is to innovate. Breaking conventional walls and building inventive ideas are the basis of any design. By bringing in new concepts in every project, our team strives to push the design envelope by going beyond where we have been. More than that, Zyeta delivers to its clients a unique […]
What Will Workplaces Design Trend in 2021 Represent?
2021 marks the occasion where we officially complete the second decade of the 21st century—a momentous milestone that will invite both celebration and speculation. The prevailing theme among trend-watchers and speculators will be: “What now?”, as they try and piece together what exactly the coming times will bring and how will they affect various fields […]
Evolving Workplace Design: From Generation X to Z
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Workplaces evolve over time in terms of design, because they evolve in terms of people. They’ve been home to different generations throughout the years with differing value sets, and these paradigm shifts have had a direct impact on the nature of workplaces themselves– the different elements within them, what their nature is and what […]
