4 good reasons to transform your workspace

Just because you're picking up the keys to your workspace doesn't mean it has to stay set in stone. A workspace is a flexible material that must adapt to your needs, over time and as your activities change.
Day to day, managers of Morning's independent spaces support many companies. These organisations (head office or subsidiary) based in Paris have around 600 workstations.
As their days go by, each team will make specific requests that will have an impact on the layout of their space. These requests can be grouped into 4 families, which - with hindsight - are as many good reasons to transform your workspace. 

☞ Reason no. 1: To match day-to-day uses
A close look at post-opening fit-outs

Between the plans initially drawn up and the reality of how a space is used, there's always a gap. Over the weeks, teams genuinely inhabit their workspace and its various rooms. Some corners prove more appealing than others, and uses particular to each person will emerge. Very often, small adjustments are needed to make informal interaction easier.  

There are plenty of examples. Cécilia looks back on a recent fit-out for the Too Good To Go team: “We've just developed an offer to take the load off their office manager by handling recurring supply orders. To be efficient, we set up a shelf with the recurring items (notepad, charger, and so on). It's up to us to keep the stock fully topped up.” 

Lucas also mentions Combo (formerly Snapshift), which has a coffee bar on the ground floor: “To personalise the fruit juice offer, some people on the team wanted to share their recipe. We put up little signs to present everyone's juices, displaying each person's first name. This kind of detail may seem like nothing, but day to day it counts for a lot.” 
Morning also supported Combo during its move to another space: at Morning Trévise.

☞ Reason no. 2: To adapt to every kind of mobility 
Thanks to workstation fit-outs, your team must be able to come, go and grow!

Beyond adapting to day-to-day uses, some arrangements are tied to structural changes. Companies are led to welcome new members of staff and to reorganise as their activities change. The workspace must be able to keep up. 

Morning has continued to support its clients even after their initial move-in, adapting workspaces in line with how their needs evolve.

For example, for Elastic, which occupies a floor at Morning Faubourg Saint-Honoré, the Morning team reconfigured the space about a year and a half after they arrived. Two small meeting rooms were combined into a single larger room, and additional furniture was brought in to meet their new needs.

Likewise, for Vertone, based at Morning Pont de l'Alma, the Morning team made changes to their workspace a year after they arrived. Four phone boxes were added, and a meeting room was removed to allow extra workstations to be fitted on the floor.

In 2021, Too Good To Go chose to take on a subtenant on the first floor of its Morning Duhesme space. To achieve this, new rooms are created through a series of partitions. At the same time, the Too Good To Go teams are brought together on the 2nd floor. To fit onto a single level without losing comfort, new meeting spaces had to be created and various workstation fit-outs carried out. Cécilia sets out the actions taken: “On the ground floor, we installed glass partitions to enclose the alcoves and recreate mini meeting rooms. We also reconfigured the nap room to turn it into a hybrid room that serves both as a rest room and a meeting room depending on the needs”

The Morning manager adds: “You have to keep in mind that this kind of reconfiguration isn't enough on its own to maintain a good quality of life at work. The result is also guaranteed thanks to the practice of the flex office and remote work.”

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☞ Reason no. 3: To champion quality of life at work
The workspace is the crucible of your culture.

Quality of life at work carries key stakes for companies. Once teams have settled in, the office managers will put well-being routines in place. Depending on the size of the organisations, their culture and their resources, the requests will vary. Some will have a greater or lesser impact on the layout of the space.

Adapting sports facilities proves to be a key point. Cécilia and Lucas look back on the Combo (formerly Snapshift) and Too Good To Go teams: “We added equipment for strength training and cardio, with specific mountings. The bike racks we added are also a good indicator of each company's sporting habits! What's more, some companies based with us have a meeting room convertible into a massage room. That wasn't the case at all to begin with.”

Some fit-outs are more substantial, as Cécilia explains: “For Flatlooker, we fitted a shower cubicle by converting part of the ground-floor toilets. A typical example of a wish expressed by a team and heard by its managers.” 
Another situation, in June 2022, when the Swile team asked for a breastfeeding room to be installed. “You wouldn't think so, but it's a real headache to set up, Cécilia points out. It's not a matter of fixing a changing table in a meeting room. There are genuine regulations to follow, with access to a water point in particular.” 

Likewise, to meet the needs of L'Oréal, based at Morning Clichy, the Morning team set up electric charging points in the car parks to allow them to keep pace with the changing vehicle fleet of the building's clients. On top of that, this initiative fits perfectly with Morning's philosophy, being a certified B Corp company. 

☞ Reason no. 4: Bringing your ecosystem together
Because your space can house far more than just your offices.

Companies are increasingly opening up their space to welcome their ecosystem, beyond direct members of staff. Whether it's providers, clients, members, freelance staff, and so on. To achieve this, here again specific fit-outs are needed. 

Among the organisations supported by Morning, Totem - which no longer has its premises at Morning - is a perfect example of this type of project. The company - which supplies food vending machines to businesses - had, at the time, commissioned Morning to fit out its Agora with its own street frontage (Dussoubs). The idea behind this showroom was to showcase Totem's partners and to host its clients over lunch breaks. 
“To create this showroom we reworked the electrical installation so we could plug in various Totem machines. Another challenge was to install a secure partition between this semi-public space and the team's offices. In the end, Totem's Agora is a fully-fledged shop.”  

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