How To Build an Office: Post-Pandemic
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- Опубліковано 29 тра 2024
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0:00 Intro
1:40 What is an Office?
2:44 Location
3:15 Appeal
4:35 Wellbeing
5:59 Flexibility
7:35 The Office Renaissance
Executive Producer and Narrator - Fred Mills
Video editing - Aaron Wood
Production Management - Clare Furlonger
Content Partnership - Liam Marsh
Additional footage and images courtesy of 3XN Architecture, Cutler Anderson Architects and Art Grice, The Office Group (TOG), Fred Mills, AMP Capital, Google Earth, Dirk Weiblen, Craig Steely Architecture, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Vincent Callebaut Architectures, SLCE Architects and Travis Mark.
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Super original and interesting theme!✨ Well chosen once more B1M👍
Honestly, more natural lights and plants would improve just about any office building I've ever seen. Especially in colder climates.
Watching B1M while raining in fasting month.. a copy of paradise
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Subscribed instantly.
Thank you so much!!
@@BuildinBrief No, thank YOU mate for bringing so well defined and awesome content for us.
Same!
@@BuildinBrief Me too! I can't believe I didn't know about this!
I like the communal/relaxing spaces in offices *but* I absolutely can't stand the open-plan workspaces. I would happily give up every other feature if I could have my own office and meet with coworkers on my break.
It's a shame open-plan is so cheap so companies have little incentive to ditch them despite a loss of production.
Well done video, though the concept of an office only applies to a limited sector of the workforce. I can imagine most folks would prefer working in their own space (not the open plan we see so often) and have a place to mingle, socialize, and brainstorm when needed.
Exactly.
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This is a fantastic video on the subject, the best summary I've seen and lots of great visual content. Sharing immediately. Well done B1M!
Nice to see the high rises adapting their work environments, just as nice seeing the ones that can't adapt are repurposed into apartments. Interesting info as usual, thanks for posting.
As a software engineer, I really do not need nor would I like to go back to the office. I'm now more productive in fewer hours and the impact of work on my private life has been diminished to the absolute minimum.
In the future I would only like an office to be available to employees to meet each other for business or meetings that cannot be done from home or would be more effective if done at the office.
I hope companies realise this fast that only a portion of their employees are suited to being in a building several hours a day which actually changes very little for those of us who do all of our work online. Not to mention the soul crushing commutes in the underground 😂
It’s certainly interesting - I work in UX so for me the ad-hoc collaborative discussions on all sorts of topics, whether with other designers or the devs actually implementing are invaluable, and something that so far has been very hard to replicate in a virtual setting.
Ultimately I think more and more flexibility is the way to go - make the offices a more pleasant environment for the people who want them, which can be achieved because you don’t need as many workstations by accommodating the talent that wants to work from home.
@@bendixon800 Absolutely agree with you, the UXers at our teams are also struggeling more with their jobs virtually. While most of the API developers (including me) are enjoying the better private / work life balance. Much hasn't changed for us, we are still working on our own little (API) islands and all the communication needed is either in documentation or in a few digital calls haha.
@@jakehandley3366 Indeed hahaha, my company luckily has realised this quite quickly and during the lockdowns all the offices have been remodelled.
They are now flex offices / communal spaces with too little capacity for the entire workforce. So working from home will become necessary. Yet if you need to have an important meeting in person, you just make sure you booked a spot in the office for it!
As usual, you hit the nail on the head. Offices will take some manifestation of the takeaways you mentioned.
“Face to face interaction builds trust and a rapport in a way that remote working doesn’t” whilst showing people working remotely using video chat and smiling, establishIng that same trust and rapport. People don’t need to commute hours to and from work anymore!
I really love this great video! This inspires me to have a natural light and some greeneries inside of an office building or headquarters, especially at the center of the building or even have a recreational area with some trees inside or on a rooftop of an office building or even do both because I love the concept of it!
Have been subscribed for 4 years now, and I have never looked back on it. All content is new and original.
I’d actually be down to get a 9-5 office job if it was in a place like this
An excellent piece. 👏🏼
Thank you!!
While I agree this may be the case for large companies, a huge part of the workforce is in small to medium size companies who wouldn't have massive spaces like this. I'd love to see your thoughts on the how companies of
Great video on so many levels
for 45 years I worked as the owners rep. for several large national and international companies building offices and doing interiors. This philosophy articulated by the B1 M was popular in the late 1970 s and 1980 s. It was tossed aside in the 1990 s because the office and its interiors are not a profit center but, a negative impact on profit. As a result everyone gets the same low panel wall work station or 8X4 Ft office no matter what your job. Clutter and noise are the result and companies don't care. Do your job or get replaced. Yes, a very few will do this but, most will not .
Brilliant !
Once more you outdid yourself better than a thousand consultants-the Vincent Callebaut concept is one looking forward to being implemented.
3:05 Being in the same place as your competitors puts you in fierce competition for the same pool of workers. It also creates an industry "idea monoculture".
Can’t wait for this
Great video as usual, but I was expecting you’ll talk more about a different view of what an office is. I think post pandemic a lot companies realized people can very well work from home and the need for a huge office (high rent, high maintenance costs, food, utilities etc.) is not so necessary anymore. My take is that companies will reduce the office space, and it will become more like meeting place for coworkers to organise meetings, brainstorm etc. come in once or twice a week and the rest of the time work from home is they want.
Great suggestion!! Helped me get ideas for my presentation 🤗
Like a "Hub" or "Satellite Office".
One of the things I noticed is the cool looking office spaces highlighted, looked like they would be horrible to work in. Huge open spaces with rows of tables with folks siting elbow to elbow, are highly noisy, cramped, and stressful to work in. The stupid cubical farms are much more workable, if not as photogenic. Photos of folks spontaneously gathering near someone to talk on their long rows of chairs by tables, quickly get banged since they to disrupt others.
Also those style of offices had to be virtually abandoned when COVID rules kicked on.
This is long overdue. Too bad it took a pandemic to get companies thinking about this
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I usually love your videos, but this one misses the mark for me. There's a lot of fluffy positive words and slick looking renderings, but not a lot of info about real lessons learned in the last year and detail on what changes companies and designers are making right now. Much of the things covered (like flexible open floor plates) were discussed and known pre-pandemic. What about changes to ventilation, air filtration and contactless walking paths? What about reducing the size of open plan spaces or eliminating them to help reduce the spread of air born viruses through a building and to reduce the high amount of background noise? What about taking out permanent desks due to people working from home and replacing them with collaborative spaces? What about moving offices out of city centres and closer to where people live? What about encouraging people to bike to work by removing parking spaces and adding bike racks etc? There are so many things that could have been talked about. Also, could we see examples of any real actual projects that have completed recently incorporating lessons learned or are we too early for that yet? Renderings are one thing, but seeing actual projects would show that real changes are being made.
While you certainly need to have creative talent able to communicate and exchange ideas, that same talent also needs some level of isolation and solitude. Noise to a creative is akin to dust in a clean room. I'm far more productive when I'm not interrupted by ambient people noise. Translated: Your competitors want *you* to have open office space while they give their best people doors that can be closed when they need to do real work.
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Most of us are skeptical about 'after covid 19', will there really be a after covid 19?
We'll probably have to learn to live with it. In that sense the return of some degree of normality would be "after Covid-19"
THERE IS ANOTHER THE B1M CHANNEL?????????
Please do an episode on how the city of Riga in the Baltics has new buildings continuously being built and old ones renovated despite zero demand. The Z-towers were built before the human gene modification plan rolled out. Years later, They stand empty to this day.
Now I'm curious what this might mean for the B1M workspace :D
Quay Quarter Tower in Sydney is going to get soooooooo much pigeon and seagull poop on its window sills. That’s all I think every time I sit outside the MCA and look back at the development. Other buildings have metal spikes everywhere to stop the birds landing there and ‘repainting’... but Quay Quarter has nothing but wide perches for them to land on.
"long term trust and rapport", but only with some people, the rest, animosity and annoyance
As long as open-plan offices go, I'm fine with anything.
That's the thing we have to remember, we're not supposed to go back to how it was before, we're supposed use the crisis to transform our society to be better after than before. That includes how we build and live in our cities.
This sounds like an econ presentation i swear
The lack of these kinds of considerations is one of my consistent problems with "futuristic" spaceships and habitats in movies. Despite what terrible movies involving Brad Pitt show I refuse to believe that ANYONE would think it a good idea to build our homes and habitats as dark, terribly lit, dreary boxes with no plants, open space, color or comfort. We know NOW that causes psychological problems. We will be better in the future, not worse.
That maybe true. However, the fact is there is 3 types of people.
Extraverts (which you really sound like one)🙄
Introverts which is someone like me
And ambiverts whit is ok with both.
Extraverts needs interaction with people, they can work with people a lot better.
Introverts can work better alone.
It is proven when introverts work alone they're more productive. Because we don't need or want your office drama.
Believe it or not us introverts don't like drama.
I can get more done by myself then having some CEO or manager hovering over my shoulder mico managing every little move I make.
For me work is work. I'm at work to work, not listen to gossip, not their to hear about the latest rumors.
Not having to constantly compete with other's just to get a damn raise or promotion. Office space is nice you can pretty it up all you like, but it's what goes on in the office that can be a bigger problem.
Why be at an office when I can be at home when I could just be wearing panties and a very large shirt curled up on the couch with my dog and my laptop doing work while drinking coffee and listening to music I like? Every so often looking up to take in the view from my apartment?
Without dealing with drama, and lest be real here no matter where you work or even go to school there is always at least one of theo's types of people you know which I'm talking about.
The Karen's
The bossy person that thinks they're better then everyone.
The person that gossips and spread rumors,
The sexist pig.
The boss that micro manages
Or the boss that for some reason seems to hate you no matter what you do? You can be on time all the time even work late for them,
You could also be very productive.
But for some reason they still don't like you and they make sure you know that.
Oh and that one person that always eats your lunch.
So please try to convince me that the office is "better" then me working from home?
Lucky for me I'm an artist, I don't really need to collaborate with anyone.
But if I did with would be with other artist or writer's who also feel the same as I do. And the best thing about it is we can communicate threw text message. But if we do meet we can meet anywhere.
At a park,
At a Cafe,
At a restaurant,
At the beach. My friend is a writer that I was working with she wanted to go to the beach and work.
So it was like girls day out at the same time working. Lol
Good luck trying to convince us being at the office is better. Lol
I 100% agree with you.
Thing is architects have great ideas but the decelopers pull back the reigns so much that they often become standard open plan or there is some token creative element.
Im the 69th like to the video :D
3:50 "Today's best offices are somewhere between a coffee lounge and stylish home." No, please no. Lots of talk about team spaces, but nothing about spaces where people can get peace and quiet so they can concentrate on getting actual work done. Seriously, I wouldn't want to work in 99% of the spaces shown here.
1rd!
With vitamin D deficiency making bones soft it is good that light is made a priority within architectural thought, but should you find yourself dwelt in dark north westerly facing rooms remember mega banana consumption plays an important role in activating vitamin D in the body.
Freshly caught fish, not tinned, are good providers tootaroo.
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Sure, gild the cage some more. The goal remains to break free.
Contains a lot of questionable claims.
Unfortunately this is what a common manager thinks, and the result are expensive good looking offices, which are actually not providing what a "knowledge economy" worker really needs: Quiet place with covered back, a large screen, limited distractions, some reasonable food, good coffee and other beverages, a shower and a decent restroom, a couple of meeting rooms, and perhaps a good topical library.
What we typically get is a colorful aquarium full of noise, too much light, people constantly passing by behind your back, developers next to noisy support calls, noisy slow blinds going automatically up and down whenever a cloud passes, mass toilets with bowls 1m from each other, separated by a cardboard, unfitting meeting rooms...
The best office I ever had was a repurposed former brewery with a very simple structure: wide central hall / room for all-hands meetings, and around it, 10 rooms with 4 large desks, and a couple of meeting rooms for 16 people, flat-style restrooms, flat-like kitchen with a table for 8 people... That was the right way.
One example for all: 4:51 - what is that? Do I really need to have a meeting next to a robotic arm, watch someone unboxing something next to a pile of wooden boxes, while sitting on a bar stool for no reason by a pingpong table right next to a path of robots? That is a nightmare office.
Another: 5:17 - "designed" space which makes no sense: A bouldering wall with no safety? Next to a round step where people sit, looking away from each other, and do what? Weird couches where you can't lean back next to a low table where it will definiely not be possible to work on a laptop? Weird wire-frame chairs with a mock of a back? Bean bags where people will sit and wait until someone falls on them from the bouldering wall? And all that creepily observed by people from the street when it gets dark? Thanks, but no thanks.
I'm not conviced the company office will survive the transition to a net negative world. (Net zero is no longer sufficient to address climate change, there's already too much carbon in the atmosphere and we need to reduce it to sto the climate change feedback loop.) As fast fibre broadband rolls out, and holding virtual video conference meetings with 3D screens and cameras becomes as good as meeting face to face, the advantages of working remotely will become greater and greater. Maybe not working from home, but maybe from a local 'facilities' office where firms hire a bit of space for their employees who live in that locality, rather like the banking hubs that will shortly replace expensive traditional bank branches.
Majority of future office images lack coffee cups, trash cans, power cords, chargers, backpacks under each desk. large grand rooms with 50 people, and none have their travel bags. Real world, these places will fill up with ugly dropped stuff that cant be hidden.
if only government would listen to this
Why dont go for UA-cam Short instead?
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'Face-to-face interaction between humans builds long-term trust and rapport in a way that remote working doesn't.'
Is there any evidence for this, or is it just emergent folk wisdom, taken as a given and therefore endlessly repeated as if underpinned by research?
#bodylanguage
There is a very large body of published research to support it. It might be because so many research papers on the topic conclude with the same results that there's a feeling of it being "common knowledge".
Wonderful! Have any women been involved in the design & planning process?
If yes, could you highlight the female-involvement
If no, why not?
In 2016, about 36% of newly registered architects were women (according to the NCARB), so I imagine more buildings in the future will have women behind their designs.
@@weldin How wonderful.
A hahahaha,never...
People want privacy in their office, so they can goof off on the internet.
Working from home is depressing, zoom is ok but not even 50 percent of the time.
I have friends who are *_STILL_* working remotely 5 days a week because their bosses are paranoid sheeple.
Communication is breaking down and people are snapping at each other via email more and more.
I'm so glad I'm a landlord and don't have any employees!
So in other words you don't have a real job and rely on the hard work of others..interesting
@@harpoonmcfierce9697 Yes! Exactly! I own a small apartment building. Not much work involved beyond collecting rents and calling plumbers on occasion :-)
Although it's not really fair of you to say I rely on the hard work of others. Plumbers don't exactly work for free, you know...
@@fredashay Actually, saying you rely on the hard work of others is absolutely accurate. All the people renting have actual jobs and contribute to society and use their hard earned money to pay rent..to you who did nothing to earn that money.
And then you got the nerve to act like you're irreplaceable because you call plumbers?? Lmfao, I can't wait for Socialism when private property is abolished and citizens aren't allowed to rent out their property.
@@harpoonmcfierce9697 Oh? So you're a thief who never learned history or civics or economics. I understand...
@@fredashay Actually if you took a second to learn about history and not just repeat what was told to you..you'd understand that the USSR for example and Venezuela as well are very clearly Authoritarian governments and have absolutely nothing to do with Socialism.
We already know that worker co-ops perform better than their non democratic counterparts..and treating basic human rights such as housing, education, and Healthcare don't work. Maybe it just me, but abolishing private property and the decommodification of inelastic markets just seems like common sense..I don't know about you but I'm for empowering the working class, don't be on the wrong side of history.
looking jail concept...
personal room and toilet, totally hygiene
Did you seriously make a post-pandemic architectural office video and not mention elevators, communal kitchens and shared bathrooms? Until we all get to use jet packs and have private rooms to eat and poop, the office isn't coming back.
What if there was a man cave for lesbians ?
Please don't say reimagined lol. It's such an annoying corporate buzzword. You're better than that.