What We Do
Workplace Strategy for Productivity and Innovation
Mayhew creates workplace strategies that align business goals, workforce needs, space, culture and future growth. Through research, engagement and data-driven analysis, we help organizations build workplaces that are efficient, flexible and aligned with how people actually work.
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Unleash Workplace Strategy's Potential
A workplace strategy is a dynamic approach that helps Canadian businesses optimize their work environments, unlock employee potential, and enhance overall workplace wellbeing. Workplace Strategy involves crafting fit out solution and developing a plan to align a company’s physical workspace with its operational and cultural goals, fostering an inclusive work environment.
By analyzing how workspace is utilized, businesses can implement workplace strategies that support efficiency, collaboration, and create an equitable workplace, ensuring long-term success.
Our Approach
Space Utilization Studies
Our discreet space auditors, observe your office environment for two weeks, using software to track meeting room, desk, and ancillary space usage. Offering valuable insights into the patterns and timing of space utilization, allowing us to provide you with valuable data to enhance your workplace efficiency.
Employee Sentiment Survey
Our detailed customizable questionnaire is thoughtfully designed to capture your team’s demographics, personalities, perceptions of their current working environment, and how they utilize it. Additionally, it delves into their aspirations and future desires for an ideal workplace. By encompassing these essential elements, the questionnaire becomes an integral part of your organization’s employee engagement program, benefiting every member of your team.
Interviews & Focus Groups
Individual interviews offer confidential platforms for employees to express their thoughts, while focus groups encourage collaborative discussions. Using a series of small group activities and facilitated discussion, we identify whether your team’s vision match those of the business leaders. The collective feedback helps us tailor an inclusive and purpose-driven workspace that enhances productivity and employee satisfaction.
Change Management
Change management is a vital part of facilitating a smooth transition during initiatives or workspace transformations. We help you build a comprehensive communication and training plan to help prepare your employees for change, addresses concerns, and fosters a positive mindset, ensuring a successful outcome.
Featured Projects
Workplaces that Worked™
Frequently Asked Questions
Workplace strategy can improve collaboration, innovation and utilization by aligning the workplace with how employees communicate, share knowledge, focus and work together. Mayhew uses workplace data and employee insights to identify opportunities to improve layouts, amenities, shared spaces and work settings so the office can support teamwork, creativity, flexibility and better space efficiency.
Workplace utilization analysis measures how employees use office spaces such as desks, meeting rooms, collaboration areas and shared spaces. A space utilization study helps businesses understand what is working, what is underused and where changes may be needed. These insights support better decisions around office space planning, workplace efficiency, hybrid work, real estate needs and future workplace investments.
Workplace utilization should be reviewed regularly, especially during periods of growth, organizational change, hybrid work planning, lease renewal, relocation or workplace transformation. Regular measurement helps organizations understand how space needs are changing and make informed decisions before committing to major workplace or real estate investments.
Yes. Workplace strategy can help reduce office space costs by identifying underused areas, improving space efficiency and aligning real estate decisions with actual business and employee needs. Understanding how space is used can help organizations optimize their workplace investment, reduce unnecessary costs and plan a more effective office environment.
Organizations should invest in workplace strategy before making major real estate or workplace decisions, such as a lease renewal, relocation, renovation, office reconfiguration, hybrid work shift or planned growth. A workplace strategy helps ensure decisions are aligned with business objectives, employee work patterns, space performance and future organizational goals.
Without workplace strategy, organizations may make real estate and workplace decisions that do not fully support their people, business goals or future growth. This can lead to inefficient space utilization, reduced employee experience, higher long-term costs, lower office engagement and missed opportunities to maximize the value of the workplace investment. To better understand the right next step, organizations can start with Mayhew’s Workplace Evaluation or connect with Mayhew’s team.
Workplace strategy focuses on understanding business goals, employee needs, work patterns, space usage and change readiness. Workplace design turns those insights into the physical workplace environment, including layout, furniture planning, finishes, technology integration and the overall workplace experience. Explore Mayhew’s Workplace Design services to see how strategy can move into design and implementation.