Your office space is a representation of your brand’s identity and image. Clients and employees consider a workplace to represent an organisation’s culture, values and ethos. Multiple factors from an office’s layout to decor, location to amenities, sustainable use of resources to responsible practices – all speak volumes about an organisation’s outlook.
An office is no longer just about making room for your workforce in a suitable brick and mortar workspace. The workplace and workspace you choose plays a crucial role in attracting, nurturing and retaining talent – critical for long term success of any organization. With the evolving role of office and hybrid workplace model, an office of the future needs to provide an ecosystem of spaces and amenities to enable community, collaboration and innovation and be a reason for employees to come to work. While location continues to be a major factor driving choice of workplace, the quality of office as a product as well as overall user experience has become equally important replacing location, location and location as the criteria set influencing the choice.
Let’s elaborate further on what you should look for while picking the appropriate workplace for your business operations. We have listed out a few questions you should ask at the onset.
Where Is Your Office Located?
The days when the office building only served as a mailing address are long gone. Your office location is pivotal in drawing market forces, clients, and resources to your organisation. Employees are more likely to continue working with organisations located in easily accessible areas. Choosing your office location with superior transportation infrastructure and multi-modal interconnectivity, with proximity to public transport venues like metro stations and bus stops, can help curb their exertion from being on the road and navigating through traffic congestions. This is further illustrated by corporates choosing for Hub and Spoke or dual footprint (e.g., Gurgaon and Noida) Model to be close to where talent lives.
Max Towers, Noida
Choosing an easily accessible Grade A+ office owned and managed by a reputed developer like Max Estates also means that business partners and clients can reach you conveniently, thus encouraging visits and meetings essential for mutual growth. You, too, will be able to maintain delivery timelines without delay, strengthening your business relationship with the existing clients and enhancing your reputation in the market you operate in.
Are There Any Safety Concerns?
Safety at work is a priority for any individual. Your workforce needs to feel secure – not just while on the office premises but also when they are in the vicinity of the workplace. The sense of working in an unsafe environment can have ineffably deterring effects on their performance and overall well-being. You have to ensure that they do not go through that kind of stress. While your organisation’s policies have to incorporate the health and safety of your employees, your physical office space also has to complement the protocols you put in place, more so if you have adopted a hybrid work model, are likely to work dynamic hours and shifts. Scanning for facilities like 24×7 access, security checkpoints and visitor monitoring within the establishment becomes important.
All Max Estates commercial developments already have centralised security governance procedures in place so that you do not have to implement them separately for the office space you rent out. For starters, every property has separate shuttle elevators from the parking area, and one can enter the main building only after a thorough security check. At Max Towers, as occupants returned to their offices after Covid-19 restrictions were lifted, a comprehensive 5S protocol was implemented – from contactless temperature check to touchless entry and exit technology, from smart box for contactless deliveries to dedicated food delivery rooms to ensure safe deliveries – the development led the way to ensure the safety of our patrons.
Security turnstiles at Max House
Is it more than just a workspace?
You have to understand that new-age professionals do not simply pursue instant gratifications. Appreciations and achievements at work are important for them, but they also hold a wholesome workplace experience in high regards. Your workspace has to act as a support system for them at work and in life alike. You have to facilitate their ability to execute both work and non-work responsibilities diligently without feeling burdened by either of them. An office complex that is furnished with amenities and conveniences can help you do so.
At Max Estates, we believe in providing an environment that nurtures the work-life balance professionals solicit. A select range of facilities and amenities are carefully inbuilt within the office complexes so that our clients can foster physical, emotional, mental and social well-being of their employees, thus enabling them to truly WorkWell. From food courts to lounges, gyms to meditation centres, collaborative spaces to sports arenas, salons to laundry services, early learning centres to weekly farmers’ markets – every resource in our buildings ease out the day-to-day life of professionals working out of a Max Estates development.
Meditation Room at Max Towers
Is the Infrastructure Sustainable?
At Max Estates, we understand that when you as an organisation make conscious choices, the positive impact can be seen throughout your workforce. The demand for sustainable offices is increasing amongst conscious employees worldwide. That is why, Max Estates lays special emphasis on creating sustainable office spaces that are comfortable to work in. Our developments are thoughtfully designed to revolutionise the workspaces with sustainable practices – from sustainable construction materials to responsible resource utilisation, and futuristic architecture to abundant biophilia. Advanced air filtration systems, smart water harvesting and recycling technologies, and construction around sun tracking for abundant natural light are some of the examples of how we offer a holistic environment for work.
Rendition of Central Forest Courtyard at Max Square
Max Square, our latest addition, is a personification of WorkWell – the operating philosophy behind Max Estates. The state-of-the-art office building aims to showcase extraordinary Environmental, Social & Governance performance by integrating sustainability, wellness, nature and biophilia in itself. Its focus is to nurture the discerning connection between human beings and their surroundings and facilitate the holistic wellbeing of the people who will occupy its spaces, the place it stands on and the planet as a whole. Max Square is an epitome of architectural design harmonising nature and life around it with 11,000 square feet of natural forest with water tributaries right at the centre of the building.
Modern day working professionals prefer to work in a less stressful and more productive environment that naturally inspires creativity and promotes collaborative efforts for growth. You have to give your employees a good enough reason to step away from the work-from-home phenomena and motivate them to return to work. Inviting your employees back to the office entails providing them with both tangible and intangible benefits within the physical environment of your office. With Max Estates you get access to all of the above, and more.
