Workplace standards
Challenges:
- Different company units with various strategies, different financial opportunities and staff requirements
- Low comparability in workplace decisions, often steered by the local management
- Requirements are determined situationally
- Failure of consolidations due to alleged local requirements
Project approach
- Deduction of real estate requirements regarding workplaces from the core business
- Development of international workplace standards:
- Office lay-out
- Space requirements
- Definition ancillary spaces
- …
- Involvement of other fields, e.g. IT, human resources, safety, etc.
- Preparation of documents and assessment of standards developed based on current transactions
- Communication and acceptance achievement for standards
Results
- Co-ordinated and global workplace standards applied for all transactions
- Strengthening of the role and the acceptance of corporate real estate management in the group