For any company looking for Grade A office space, areas such as location, budget and digital connectivity are all key considerations when selecting a home. And, while these are all extremely important, health and wellbeing are areas that rank increasingly high on occupiers’ list of priorities.  As organisations are now facing the challenge of how to do more for their employees, Causeway’s Future-Fit Space concept takes into account some of the many factors needed to facilitate individuals and allow organisations to thrive.

In an age of super-connectedness, it might be expected that workers should find it easier to maintain a healthy and well-balanced lifestyle.  However, the fact is that the average worker is still anticipated to spend 90% of their life indoors, and this is just one the reasons why Chichester House is being designed and developed to optimise the health and wellbeing of occupants.

Global adoption of health and wellbeing

Over the past decade businesses have become increasingly interested in employee wellbeing, not only to reduce absenteeism but also as a method to increase productivity, retention and to drive innovation. Put it this way, the addition of a swimming pool, games rooms, and a running track to Google’s London HQ may not seem just so whacky when looking at the number of patents the company is registering weekly, and then there’s the profit.

Always ensuring they are more than a couple of steps ahead, global corporations like Apple and Google have realised that health and wellbeing are game changers when it comes to getting the best from their staff. Apple’s new futuristic campus, a legacy of founder Steve Jobs and the headquarters of Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California, opened in 2017 to its first phase of occupants. Closer to home, Google’s much publicised final plans for its epic and highly anticipated London landscaper were lodged last year, with the intention of beginning construction on the building in 2018. Both new sites are proving that the big global players realise environment is vital to get the best from their workforce and both are clearly prepared to invest heavily in ensuring the wellbeing of their workforce is front and centre.

Agents, developers, investors and landlords are looking very closely at landmark projects like these and others that buck the trends of traditional commercial places and many, to varying degrees, are adopting similar health and wellbeing practices in their own corporate spaces to maximise the effectiveness of their workforce.

Health & wellbeing at Chichester House

At our Chichester House spec office development, health & wellbeing is completely at the forefront of our development plans and we are very much aware of changing demographics, economic conditions, health imperatives and multitude technological advancements that are presently shaping the office space of the future.

Our aim is to craft a space where health & wellbeing and digital connectivity will go hand in hand, with staff being able to perform at their best at all times, and at every level. Our building and Future Fit Space concept provide the flexibility and adaptability to meet the changing needs of our occupiers on an individual basis, ensuring their space is what it needs to be for their staff today – and tomorrow.