Improving employee well-being and adapting to new ways of working

This includes having a wide choice of spaces from which collaborators can choose to work throughout the day - from workspaces where they can work in peace to rooms dedicated to conversations, or even small lounges and a coffee corner for convivial moments.

As the Covid-19 pandemic has led to an enormous increase in working from home, the desk-sharing office design in Toulouse is as attractive for the SPIE team as it is for the candidates and clients that visit. In response to the health crisis, SPIE Switzerland adapted to new ways of working as well, switching all meeting rooms at Bern headquarters to a hybrid model to ensure that people could connect to in-person meetings virtually and standardising the IT equipment. 

However, creating a pleasant office environment is about more than just providing an array of flexible workspaces. “Comfort is also equally important for employee well-being,” says Markus Jordi, sales development executive and key account manager at SPIE Switzerland. “Our flex offices feature intelligent lighting infrastructure with fully implemented sensors for noise, air quality, presence and temperature.” All of this information is centralised in a digital dashboard and presented on an online kiosk for easy manipulation by occupants. “When it is safe to do so, we are planning to invite our customers and partners to the office, to showcase our new space and allow them to see first-hand our ability to design modern, tech-savvy working spaces,” adds Blerim Rudhani, head of procurement and logistics at SPIE Switzerland. Ease of use, flexibility and adaptation in a building design are all necessary for occupant comfort and well-being, but it is the technology and automation provided by SPIE that keeps these buildings running flawlessly. “We create services for building users,” explains Alban Rolin, head of digitalisation and continuous improvement, at SPIE ICS in Malakoff, France.