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>> The redesign of the offices seems to take the path by focusing on offering the offices as spaces for social interaction and cohesion of the team of working people. “A more social workplace can stimulate innovation, community life and commitment to work.”

Continuing with the recently shared article of the Harvard Business Review, which highlights the new hybrid ways of working and the impact it has had on workspaces, we delve into the debate on the redesign of offices as spaces for social interaction.

According to the authors, the redesign of offices as spaces for social interactions between working people is proposed. “Redesign, technology and management practices can be used to make future offices more effective as social, learning and innovation spaces.”

Being able to create a feeling of belonging among the team and break with the feeling of loneliness and isolation, which many of the workers have felt since the Covid-19 crisis, is one of the great challenges of companies. More and more companies are organizing activities to create community and do what is known as team building.

With this trend, a new need has grown in jobs: the reorganization of work tables, the distribution of common spaces and the incorporation of certain spaces that give rise to social interaction between the team seem real and growing needs in many companies. Even certain companies have offered free food to workers to enhance interaction between them.

It is proposed, but the debate of whether the office will become a space where it is more convenient to enjoy a moment of leisure and whether this fact will be affected in the productivity of working people.

However, experts say that, if the office is well designed and guarantees that leisure spaces are well separated from workspaces, the workplace can maintain a good balance to promote the concentration and productivity of working people.

“A more social workplace can stimulate innovation, community life and commitment to work.”