Hospitality-Influenced Design in the Workplace
Design firms are beginning to use hospitality-influenced design to create work environments that focus on the employee experience and foster community.
These hospitality-design driven spaces are inspired by boutique hotels, lounges, event venues - environments where the furniture and accessories package contributes to a tailored, unique experience. Industry leaders have discovered that by translating this concept for the workplace and offering employees a warmer environment, they can compete with the comfort of remote work and have the power to draw people back into the workplace.
Additionally, workplace environments designed with accommodation and personalized experiences in mind can help strengthen the connection users feel to the space, a company’s brand, and their employer. The degree of this connection that employees feel is strongly related to the loyalty they have for their company. With some workplaces operating under a hybrid model, where employees have the option to work remotely a number of days a week, those few days they spend inside the office should be impactful.
Examples of Hospitality-Influenced Design in the Workplace:
Attractive lounge settings
Attractive lounge settings can become catalysts for team collaboration and camaraderie, and can serve as effective focal points for the company’s brand.
Emphasizing focus on the individual’s experience
Emphasizing focus on the individual’s experience, in addition to how to best support the ways in which they come together with their team, can make individual employees’ needs feel seen.
Finish pallets with diverse materiality
Finish pallets with diverse materiality create both visual interest and comfort. A thoughtfully-designed space can feel more personal, individual, and intentional.
High-design meeting spaces
High-design meeting spaces have the power to elevate attendee experience, encouraging employees to host in-person meetings and competing with the convenience of virtual calls.
Implementing hospitality-influenced design can host a more tailored, unique experience for a company’s employees.
Creating a sense of care and accommodation, fostering community, strengthening the connection between an employee and a company’s brand, producing more impactful visits to the office - these are all possible by-products of designing spaces inspired by the hospitality experience.
In addition to keeping up with current interior design trends (whether that be by visiting national conferences or subscribing to content from design publications), having access to a repertoire of product manufacturers with diverse styles, functions, and stories is key to creating a distinctive, hospitality-inspired environment. The beauty in this style of interior design lies in the individualism of each piece, and that when part of a greater assembly, can help tell the story behind a particular brand or place.
Synergy, a Henricksen Company’s team has partnerships with numerous hospitality vendors and an extensive collection of curated thought-starters to help you launch your project's unique furniture and accessories package. When you add Synergy to your project team, we can help you match your original design intent, or we can help you discover something entirely fresh and exciting for your hospitality-inspired space.