It’s always lekker when you get to spend a weekday sitting poolside, an internet connection the only tangible link you share with those sitting in the office slaving away.

Of course you feel the need to post it on Facebook, what good is having fun if you can’t rub it in other people’s faces? The thing is that if you happen to work in a pretty decent office space sometimes going to work ain’t so bad after all, something that Forbes recently focused on.

If you consider that Apple just invested $5 billion in a new office space and Samsung $300 million it appears those bemoaning the death of the office space may be talking rubbish:

Office spaces are re-emerging as employee experience centres. All of the companies that are investing in new or redesigned spaces are doing so because they realize one crucial change that has happened in the workplace. That organisations can no longer assume that employees need to work there and organisations must in fact create environments where people actually want to show up. These beautiful new spaces aren’t being created for fun or because it’s a nice thing to do. Companies are leveraging their physical environment as a new strategic competitive advantage…

When the idea of open spaces was first introduced it was an exciting and positive change that was then met by backlash and articles stating that open environments are making people sick. What many of these articles failed to mention was that the organisations investing in open floor plans also have numerous other floor plans that cater to diverse ways of working. It’s not a one-way or nothing approach. It’s about recognising that employees have multiple preferences for how they want to work and enabling that…

The lesson here is that instead of focusing and enabling one way of working, organisations must enable multiple ways of working through spaces that cater to a diverse set of employees needs and expectations. As work life integration continues to increase we will bring our work lives home and our personal lives to work, so leaders must ask themselves, “do we have a space where people want to bring their lives to?”

Part of the lekker vibe we like to cultivate around the office stems from finding ourselves in the Woodstock Exchange, the kind of place that makes a lunchtime wander a feast of people-watching and lekker lunch options.

You might not need a whole floor or block to run what you’ve got going on, which is why The Bureaux offer flexible office space depending on your needs. Grab a desk for just R1 500 a month or ramp it up with an office suite for just R5 500, both connected to a high-speed internet connection that will keep you ticking over.

Or you know, keep on Facebooking about that coffee shop you worked from the other day. Sick picture, but back to your cubicle straight afterwards.

[source:forbes]