Design With Impact Group Settings

Explore how the workplace can help strengthen teams by supporting team members, whether they’re collaborating or working independently in proximity to one another.

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Design With Impact

Group Settings

Explore how the workplace can support teams by providing an environment that supports a variety of work styles. Whether team members are collaborating on a project or working independently, the right workspace can encourage connection, enhance focus, and promote productivity.

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Conference Room

These highly structured group settings offer a consistent experience for information-sharing—often in-person, but also supportive of remote participants—in a controlled environment that's free of distractions.

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For Wellbeing

The design of this setting considers the comfort, health, and safety of everyone who will use it. Seating options and ample circulation space ensure that it can accommodate a wide range of people—including those who use assistive devices.

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For Connection

When people can gather together in the same space, they’re able to build trust, community, and knowledge through shared experiences. It supports business conversation and presentations for both in-person and remote participants.

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For Change

Teams adapt more easily to change when members can reconfigure space to meet their needs. This helps reduce disruption and build resiliency. Conference rooms offer a controlled environment and a predictably reliable experience.

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Neighborhood

These tailored group settings—often owned by a team—offer a variety of work points. This enables team members to cycle freely and intuitively between individual and group activities, all without leaving the neighborhood.

Strategies Behind this Setting

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For Wellbeing

By enabling choice through adaptable furnishings, a range of work points, and adjustable tools, this setting meets new expectations for flexibility. The variety of options is easy to read, offering different opportunities for interaction.

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For Connection

Because this space is owned by a group or team, it’s designed to facilitate collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and problem-solving. Circulation routes offer niches and other stopping points for quick, spontaneous exchanges of ideas.

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For Change

Help teams adapt to change by giving them the ability to reconfigure space to reduce disruption and improve resiliency. Ownership of a team neighborhood gives permission to group members to adapt the space to best meet their needs.

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