Domestic & General
London
Location
London
Status
Completed 2021
Sector
Commercial
Client
Domestic & General
We have created a new workplace for Domestic & General in Wimbledon, to support the client’s new hybrid working model. The resulting space is a series of collaborative and traditional work settings, backed up by employee research to maintain staff wellbeing and aid retention.
A major driver for the refurbishment was to create a ‘reason’ for colleagues to want to return to the office. This has been achieved by uplifting the facilities both practically and aesthetically and by increasing space for collaboration both in person and online. As part of this, a key priority was to create a workplace that placed wellbeing at the forefront of the design and to ensure an inclusive environment, supporting colleagues both physically in the office as well as those remote working, through investment in good collaboration technologies.
The result is a well-considered place for agile working with spaces to suit all team members’ differing needs, including separate working set-ups for digital teams’ alternative ways of working, fully flexible conference spaces to adapt to endless combinations of people, and a dedicated meeting floor equipped with touchdown desks to allow areas for employees to use between meetings.
Overall, we believe Domestic & General Wimbledon has been a huge success. It meets the needs of a clear and direct brief and responds to employee well-being and agile working. Its clever use and placement of materials, joinery and FF&E create focused and calm environments to support employees’ working needs.
