Your workplace is changing how your people think.
Most of the time, not for the better. The average office was built for occupancy, not thinking. We help organizations measure what's in the way — and fix it.
creative ideas are generated by in-person teams versus virtual ones — and their best ideas are rated as more original.
Brucks & Levav 2022of offices have been updated in the last three years — and of those that were, only 1 in 5 employees felt meaningfully included in the process.
Gensler 2025There's no such thing as a 'neutral' environment. Your built environment is either helping you, or it's hurting you.
Sarah Williams GoldhagenThe average office scores 10 points lower than working from home. If you're asking people to come in, the burden of proof is on the space.
Leesman Indexin cognitive performance from improving environmental elements such as air quality, lighting, temperature and noise.
AECOMHow we engage.
Examine your entire workplace ecology to truly understand what's getting in the way of your employees' ability to work and collaborate.
We evaluate your workplace across the five layers of Workspace Ecology™ — measuring how culture, hospitality, sensory cues, topography, and infrastructure either enable or erode employee engagement and cognitive capacity.
We audit everything from environment and technology to organizational behaviors and process, then craft a findings report that diagnoses each element and offers strategies for addressing gaps. It’s a roadmap your leadership team can use to make informed decisions on improving the workplace experience.
Get inspiration for your workplace redesigns before you call the architects.
Most workplace strategy starts in a conference room. This one starts in the field — exploring real buildings, environments, and spaces where people gather, create, and connect in the best ways. You feel firsthand how environments impact how people feel and think.
After the exploration, you debrief your observations and, through structured synthesis, translate them into a charter for your own workplace rethink — a purpose, design tenets, and requirements to make the work real.
You leave with a point of view and vision for re-inventing the way your offices can work.
An RFP should tell architects how your people need to think, not how many desks they need.
A lot of companies get excited about a workplace redesign, but then are disappointed with the outcomes— no change in work behaviors, engagement, or productivity.
Before spending big budgets on architectural plans and redesigns, understand what employees really need to think and work better. We work alongside real estate, facilities, and HR teams to build RFPs grounded in nuero-design principles that focus on cognition and culture, not just work modes.
The result is a brief for architects and interior design firms that closes the gap between your intent and what gets built.
Workspace Ecology™
A workplace is more than a building. It's an ecology of cues. And those cues influence how we focus, feel, connect, and create. When the ecology is off, people have to compensate. When it works, people are able to flourish.
Culture
The values, norms, and rituals that shape how people actually behave — not what the handbook says.
Teams with high psychological safety show measurably higher engagement, bolder ideas, and stronger performance.
Hospitality
The quality of care and service that sets the tone for how people feel from the moment they arrive.
When skilled support handles setup and coordination, employees preserve working memory — and arrive at real work less depleted.
Sensory Cues
Light, sound, temperature, scent — the signals that help the brain focus, collaborate, and rest.
Scent travels directly to the brain's emotion and memory centers. Diffusing hinoki cypress measurably lowered cortisol in controlled office studies.
Topography
The layout, zones, and flow of the space — how the physical environment shapes movement and interaction.
A review of 31 studies found open-plan offices correlated with worse social outcomes, lower satisfaction, and less collaboration.
Infrastructure
The technology, furniture, and systems that either enable or get in the way of good work.
Harvard researchers improved only the air. Strategic thinking scores jumped 61%. The brain runs on its environment before anything else.
"Environments fostering connection, learning, and experimentation will bolster the trust that fuels collaboration, critical thinking, and imagination — things that AI cannot replicate."
Gensler 2026 Global Workplace Survey
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