Recent projects that have sharpened our expertise.

 
 
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Global Design Guidelines

Confidential Investment Management Company
Completed: 2019

The development of our client’s global design guidelines involved a strong partnership between Perkins&Will and key stakeholders from enterprise groups. The final guidelines offer general design and performance guidance including architecture, engineering, furniture, and branding elements. 

Our team developed and delivered these standards as an interactive tool and checklists to ensure access is easy and implementation is seamless.

Global Design Guidelines

Thomson Reuters
Initial Guidelines: 2015
Updated: 2021

Perkins&Will partnered with Thomson Reuters to create their initial guideline strategy for a workplace that reinforces the company’s culture and vision, and is focused on retaining new technology talent. We were also engaged most recently in 2021 to revise those guidelines and incorporate lessons learned, add more detail on new ways of working and to further support diverse workstyles across their global organization.

Wayfinding, Signage and Brand Integration Standards

Red Hat
Completed: 2020

Red Hat’s brand focuses on their innate nature: Open. Authentic. Helpful. Brave. They worked meticulously to update their virtual, social and print presence, and they looked to Perkins&Will to help with their evolving workplace experiences. With 95+ offices in 35 countries, it was imperative to Red Hat to bring their brand to life and celebrate what makes each office culture unique.

We worked with Red Hat to assemble recommended brand kits and developed a global standards guide to integrate brand, signage, and wayfinding into their cutting-edge technology environments worldwide.

 
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Workplace Strategy

Shure, Incorporated
On-Going: 2016-2021

Perkins&Will has worked with Shure over the last five years on a variety of strategy projects as to help them with data-driven decisions on their regional portfolio approach, detailed programming for their research and development operations and innovative ways to pilot and measure new ways of working.

Most recently, our team engaged their global workforce in a series of virtual focus group with live polling to gather their thoughts on more flexible work options, the future role of the workplace, and the local factors that impact the way they work. This information was used as decision support for their executive team as Shure moves forward with a new policy and new spaces to support their valuable workforce around the globe.

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Workplace Strategy

Confidential Financial Services Firm
On-Going: 2011-2021

Professional services firms have been at the forefront of new workplace design and we have partnered with them this journey. Their goal has always been to maximize the impact of their real estate investment, adopt new workstyles, and leveraging innovative design and technology to elevate employee and client experiences.

For this firm, we developed a new hoteling approach, workplace standards, and change management approach that has been rolled out to 45+ offices. We’ve captured post-occupancy measurements and applied lessons learned to each new iteration of the design. While many companies will be testing out new mobile work concepts, we have been working with firms like this who already know what the next generation of workplace will look like and continue to look ahead.

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Workplace Strategy

United Airlines
Completed: 2021

Few companies have seen the level of disruption that the airline companies experienced over the last two years. We partnered with United Airlines during this time of change to help them uncover the opportunities and create a clear strategy for their workplace in Chicago. Our services included implementing a mobility approach, workplace standards, space programming, stacking, phasing, and change management.

Our deep engagement with employees through surveys, interviews, and focus groups produced a range of well-vetted workplace scenarios that was defensible, equitable, and viable to meet their business goals and align with United’s Core4 Values.

Design Guidelines

Selected examples of design guidelines that enabled design consistency, clarity, and value.

  • Room Sheets

    Standards for each room to ensure a consistent experience for team members and clients.

  • Flexible Design Elements

    Demonstrate modular design principles with examples on how a kit-of-parts works within the space.

  • Acoustics

    Goals and strategies for addressing office privacy and acoustic zones in the workplace.

  • Amenity Spaces

    Guidelines for the amenity spaces that make such a big impact on the experience of team members and visitors.

  • Furniture

    General guidance on furniture use and features with supporting imagery to set clear expectations.

  • Space Program

    Templates designed to clearly allocate space based on the population served, office function, and consistent ratios.

  • Space Types

    Inventory of the types of spaces within the workplace creating a consistent glossary when designing.

  • Well-being

    A standard for addressing sustainability, wellness, and other features that put employee health in the foreground.

Brand and Wayfinding

Selected examples of brand and wayfinding collateral to guide the story of culture, values, and people.

  • Brand Mapping

    Identifying where brand moment live in plan and creating zones for brand experiences that are dimensional.

  • Brand Personality

    Brand personality is an ever-present foundation, meaning every interaction in your space will reflect your core traits.

  • Brand Integration Checklist

    A brand checklist makes sure brand thinking does not become an afterthought.

  • Character Menu

    Tool to help determine the design flavor a local office gravitates towards.

  • Content Journey Strategy

    Designing the experience by anticipating what audiences will encounter as they move through your space.

  • Signage Standards

    Creating continuity and efficiency in your workspace with clear signage standards.

  • Existing Brand Analysis

    Review of current brand application and quantities by location.

  • Brand Priority Worksheet

    Identify which areas of your space will benefit from each method of brand integration.

Workplace Strategy

Selected examples of workplace planning tools, concept development, and data-driven insights.

  • Workplace Benchmarks

    Understanding typical space allocation standards and ratios can be a valuable tool for program development.

  • Heat Maps

    Visual heat maps help you understand how space is used in the context of your floor plan.

  • Adjacency Diagrams

    Tool to better understand the spatial relationship between teams and other key elements.

  • Card Reader Utilization Study

    Using card reader data to study space utilization by location, department, and role.

  • Focus Groups with Live Polling

    Focus Groups become even more valuable when quantitative data is added to the qualitative conversation.

  • Headcount Modeling

    Planning for the future means understanding growth and models are used to better understand future populations.

  • Workplace Survey

    A tool to gather feedback from a broad group ideally before and after a project to inform and understand the impact of a new design.

  • Collaboration Space Analysis

    A variety of tools can be used to study the use of collaboration spaces including data from reservations system and sensors.

  • Persona Development

    As we seek to better understand workstyles and mobility, developing and assigning persona can help define space needs.

  • Planning Principles

    A good strategy depends on a foundation of planning principles including key zones and activities supported in the workspace.

  • Sensor Utilization Study

    Using sensor data to study space utilization at the seat level throughout the day.

  • Worksetting Development

    Diagrams used to create a common verbal and visual vocabulary around space types.

  • Programming Dashboard

    A useful tool to test space allocation ratios and standards and the primary input to the initial space plans.

  • Stacking Diagram

    Tool used to plan vertical adjacency in multi-level spaces.

  • Work Zone Planning

    An initial step in strategy development is to understand how zones interact and create experience and efficiency.