With the addition of an extra office floor, Drees & Sommer's Leipzig office now offers space for around 140 employees. Remote working has become more popular, but the office has not lost its relevance – on the contrary: the office plays a more important role than ever before. What is not possible remotely, must be done in (and by) the office. And this is particularly the case for the personal – and informal – exchange between colleagues.
‘We have designed our new office with an uncompromising focus on the needs of our employees – based on a survey carried prior to the conversion. We have created an office working environment where things are possible that are not possible when working at home or somewhere else. Our mixture of open workplaces, rest and recreation spaces and encounter areas aims to encourage communication,’ explains Drees & Sommer Partner Jörg Wohlfarth, who heads the office in Leipzig.
There are 35 new workplaces, six meeting rooms and three so-called ‘Chatpods’ – a room-in-room system, where employees can make confidential phone calls, for example. The office is fully designed for activity-based work. Users can choose where to work, depending on what they do. The renovation measures are guided by holistic sustainability aspects. For example, both the acoustically effective slat walls and the chatpods as well as the parquet flooring and the carpet tiles are Cradle to Cradle certified.
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