![]() ![]() With half of the UK workforce expected to be self-employed freelancers by the end of 2020, we asked co-founder Ben to draw on his experience and explain how you can create a new blueprint for the creative workspaces of the future. So we started to explore the market further, visiting co-workspaces in Bristol, London and Manchester, but had little success in finding a real community space.”įast forward to the present, and Gather Round is now a fully-functioning creative co-working space, home to a whole variety of creative agencies, businesses and freelancers. “We thought, well if we feel this way, we can’t be alone. When the next step of growing their successful design studio led them to review new office spaces in 2017, they found themselves “cold and uninspired”. ![]() “Spaces that paid lip service to the creative industries without due care and attention to the details.” “We were looking for a work environment built around the needs of creative practices, but repeatedly found office space that had been retrofitted with ‘quirk’ – think bean bags and table tennis tables,” explains Ben. This may prove sufficient for corporate firms, but what about creative businesses and agencies?įor Ben Steers and Jason Smith, the founders of Bristol-based creative studio Fiasco Design, these typical offices were too sterile for their business, but the creative workspaces on offer were too often ill-conceived attempts to be ‘fun’ and ‘casual’. But yet, the blueprint for the modern office still results in standardised open plan spaces. How much does our physical environment impact our productivity at work? Lighting, temperature, air quality: there have been numerous studies revealing attention-to-detail in these areas will not only increase productivity, but employee wellbeing, too. ![]()
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