A significant majority of businesses — 77% — believe the lack of social contact during work hours has compromised employee wellness.
As a result, many organizations believe it’s time to reinvent the working environment with a middle ground between packed offices and the isolation of working at home: the hub-and-spoke office model
A lot of nonprofit organisations with more than 500 employees globally, have operated under the hub-and-spoke model since 2018.
This approach enabled the organizations to reduce their office space by 65% and optimize the employee experience through the modernization of its communication tools, design, and technology.
Here are some pointers by which companies can put this model into action:
- Enabling a Cohesive Culture:
The challenge of having multiple office spokes is ensuring that the employee experience — both in the office and culturally — feels cohesive.
Companies must then deliberately define what cohesion means for them with consistent and clear interventions.
The impact of the hub-and-spoke model is also significant in terms of a company’s environmental impact — a growing concern of many employees.
Downsizing to a smaller hub can shrink a company’s carbon footprint by lowering the amount of energy expended on appliances, air-conditioning, and heating, as well as emissions from commuting employees’ vehicles.
Embracing Behavior-Based Design:
Another factor of a successful hub-and-spoke model is an office layout steeped in behavior-based design offering separate spaces for meetings and collaboration, phone booths for video and phone calls, and quiet rooms for focused work.
In this arrangement, individual employees will no longer need dedicated desks; instead, employees can choose a work location, either a hub or spoke, that best suits their intended behavior.
This is an exciting time for employees, as employers increasingly empower them to personalize and customize how and where they work best.
Adopting the hub-and-spoke model gives you a larger, more significant geographic footprint that can broaden your company’s audience, customer, and client reach. To know more about it, read this article:https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article
