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