Workplace
Workplace
A Lounge for Good Relations with Customers
[Lifenet Insurance Company] Tokyo, Japan
An expanded sales area, by creating a multi-use space in the headquarters building. Named Samarkand through an employee campaign, after the Silk Road oasis at the crossroads of civilization. The meaning in Sanskrit, in fact, means “the place where people meet.”
The Project-oriented Workplace
Changes for The Better
[Nikken Sekkei] Tokyo, Japan
POW, taking up the entire eighth floor of Nikken Sekkei’s Tokyo offices. There are many shared desks in the area covered with the materials, models and ideas for ongoing projects.
Project Rooms: Helping to Draw Out Potential Customer needs
[Ziba] Portland, Oregon, USA
The three office concepts are collaboration, creativity and community. The Project Rooms were created to help realize these concepts. Many of the Project Rooms are located within the offices, so that customers can simply be ushered in.
A student-centered design laboratory,
supporting Amsterdam’s creative community
[MediaLAB Amsterdam] the Netherlands
Based in Amsterdam, MediaLAB Amsterdam has for the last 10 years become an increasingly well known design resource for companies and other organizations. Outstanding students from around the world come together here for not only academic but also very practical research.
A place where employees freely come and go:
A flexible office, in a smokestack industry
[NS Stations] Utrecht, the Netherlands
The Netherlands’ biggest railway company is Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS). Its subsidiary, NS Stations, is responsible for station development and operations; its aging office was given a major renovation, including design work. While it now has received very positive response from employees, behind the story were a number of measures take to ensure smooth change.
Encouraging the independence of youth;
Training the talent that can reform Korea
[Seoul Youth Hub] South Korea
Due to rapid economic development, Korea is faced with a youth employment problem. Helping to support the employment and living of young people, the future of the nation, is the Youth Hub organization. Only founded about a year ago, its internships and other activities for youth are now beginning to show results.
Building a community:
Developing Singapore’s entrepreneurial culture
[Plug-In@Blk71] Singapore
Working to foster a Singaporean entrepreneurial spirit, NUS Enterprise operates a new concept in incubators, Plug-In@Blk71. It isn’t simply an incubator, it is a melting pot where the start-up community comes together.
Scandinavia’s leading digital creative school enters Asia
[Hyper Island] Singapore
Hyper Island, which sends digital creative people out throughout the world, is an educational organization founded in Sweden that is able to attract many global companies such as Adidas and Nestlé. We will introduce its Asia campus in Singapore, established in 2012.
Workplace Transformation
at Singapore’s Largest Bank
[DBS] Singapore
Top bank DBS has three major locations within Singapore. The DBS Asia Hub is an office in which previous separated business functions were combined. The various office spaces were designed to increase efficiency and productivity, and are places offering employees freedom in their work.
Training the people who can support the claim “Strongest Bank in the World”: A city-center training facility
[OCBC] Singapore
OCBC, called one of strongest banks in the world, is based in Singapore with a focus on Asia but with more than 24 branches overseas. The company is known for its stable management, and is much larger than Japan’s megabanks. What is behind this strong management foundation?
A large staircase that accelerates “agile working”
[Unilever] Singapore
Unilever is a global consumer products company, with a wide range of brands sold in some 190 countries around the world. The Singapore office, headquarters to the vitally important Asia-Oceania region, is a facility planned to reduce costs while also ensuring the happiness of its employees.
Trusting the value of youth, to build a workplace where it is easy for young people to work
[Spencer Ogden] Singapore, Singapore
Spencer Ogden, headquartered in London, grew very rapidly for the four years following its establishment as a recruiting firm focusing on the energy industry. Without any hesitation, the company clearly states that an office that young people find easy to work in is a necessity. That is because Spencer Ogden also trusts in the value of young people.
Innovation Made Visible Brings Company Collaboration
[Gore] Newark, Delaware, USA
Taking on a new challenge starts with volunteering for the job
Creating Customer Satisfaction in A Playful Office
[Zappos] Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
To meet the differing home care needs of each patient, the Mitsuba Home Clinic coordinates with outside professionals in each area.
Equal Cooperation Among Professionals
[Mitsuba Home Care] Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
To meet the differing home care needs of each patient, the Mitsuba Home Clinic coordinates with outside professionals in each area.
An Open Process that Integrates Different Cultures
[Hakata Elementary School] Hakata, Fukuoka, Japan
Hakata Elementary School was established through the integration of elementary schools in four districts. In order to integrate the different organizational cultures that had developed in each district, the process emphasized active interchange among the Boards of Education, teaching staff and people in each district.
A Community of Resonance Representing the Unity of Vision and Business
[The Hub] London, UK
The Hub provides the setting and opportunity for individuals with idea and a high level of social consciousness to gather and produce business through a collaborative process.
Using the Attraction of Nature and the Sense of Analog in Design Education
[Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)] Rhode Island, USA
The RISD Department of Furniture Design has dispatched product designers and others to global corporations. We visited the school’s campus in Rhode Island to discover their curriculum and other factors.
A space that stimulate the basic senses and helps create ideas
[JWT] New York, USA
World-leading advertising agency JWT renovated its offices in 2004. We wanted to find out how this space with an awareness about basic communication, and an environment making it more easily occur, was it created, and how it is used.
Freedom and clear goals maximize productivity and creativity
[Google] New York, USA
Google asked a question: what work environment should it create to maintain a high level of employee motivation and creativity? We met with management of the company’s New York office.