The 'perfect' office layout for innovation and productivity

While open plan offices have been popular for almost 70% of companies, recent research shows that it may not be the ideal office environment for innovation and productivity. Instead, experts suggest that the best office environment needs to create a balance between work, worker, and workplace. This includes having flexibility, different types of environments or zones, and furniture that can be moved around. The zones include focus, collaboration, laboratory, mind-opening, communal, and virtual/external zones, which are designed for peak individual focus and productivity, facilitating teams to debate, produce prototypes, rapidly experiment and iterate, give staff the time to come up with original, divergent ideas, build a culture for trust, purpose, and collaboration, and work in whichever way works best for them. By keeping these elements in mind, any company can improve its innovation capability and productivity of their people.