Harsh Binani is the co-founder of the largest managed workspace provider, Smartworks. Harsh Binani shares that Smartworks is not just a workspace provider but also an office experience provider. They provide amenities that help employees perform more seamlessly and more efficiently.
After spending years building workspaces that add value to the employees, he believes that when a workspace is providing an office experience employees tend to stay for a longer period of time and invest more of their time and energy into performing their tasks to the best.
Changing roles and attitude towards offices
It is not going unnoticed the changes that are coming in the workspaces and the role they play now. Workspaces are not just places where people go and complete their daily assigned tasks and pack to go home. After the pandemic struck the homes became offices and the lines of life and work blurred.
Now when things are getting back to normal, employees are coming back with different expectations from their workspaces. Employees have spent almost 2 years at home and these months have allowed them to try different hobbies and try diverse activities. While coming back to offices, bringing their employees back to offices, the leadership must act now to ensure that when they return, workplaces are both productive and safe.
Structured to Work Needs
Harsh Binani believes that offices have become more employee-centric, developing spaces according to the work needs of all the employees. Now the structure of workspaces is built, to make spaces more accommodating for the employees. For example, quiet corners for the writers, easy access to all departments for the HR, or library-like structure for the designers.
Work Near Home
As work from home cannot be a permanent solution, Harsh Binani says that work near home will become the next big thing. Work near home is all about creating an experience similar to office headquarters. In these difficult times, the innate flexibility to adjust and take on and its capability to develop a positive still up in the air to win will foreshadow well for the office space market.
The pandemic of Coronavirus and the drawn-out lockdown have caused the two businesses and laborers to see a few incredible benefits of remote work. This has always changed the elements of purpose in the work environment.
Harsh Binani believes that workspaces are not just confined to the desks of every other employee but also to a wholesome office experience. With Smartworks he is striving towards creating office experience for the employees as well as clients. Accompanied with amenities like a gymnasium, sleeping pods, gaming zones, outdoor games, and much more.
In addition to these, enterprises are also creating tech-enabled workspaces that make day-to-day tasks seamless and safe for everyone. Harsh Binani firmly believes that it’s the coming age of technology that will help make employees more productive and engaged.
