A DYNAMIC FLOORPLATE

Ifj examines the pros and cons of agile workspaces and the way ahead

- Alpana lath Sawai and Aadrita chatterji

Traditionally, agile working has been an employee-centric intervention with spaces designed to help workers collaborate, work across different types of seating, and so on. Increasingly, however, organizations are understanding the advantages of flexible infrastructure that allows them to use capital optimally instead of in a ‘rinse and repeat’ pattern that is no longer of service to future-ready companies.

Ar. Vistasp Bhagwagar, Founder & Principal Architect, Architect Vistasp & Associates, New Delhi, says, “Every day is not the same, it does not have the same activities necessarily, so why must one be chained to one type of work station or assigned desk? It is this thinking that has led to the need for need-based or activity-based workspaces where you could be collaborating in the morning, having a formal training midway and then a quiet session in the afternoon, followed by a formal presentation in the conference room in the evening. All these require freedom to move and the choice to select appropriate workplace settings. That is the heart of an agile work environment.”