Workplace Transformation for a Hybrid Office

Today’s hybrid office design must be a destination that earns your employees’ commute.

It’s critical to support varied ways of working, from heads down focus work to freeform collaboration. Employees are looking to reconnect with their colleagues, collaborate in ways that they can’t at home, and find focus away from the distractions of home life. The new office design needs to meet all of this while ensuring that everyone has an equitable experience.

Hybrid workplace strategy involves the rethinking of spaces and technology to make sure that all employees, local and remote, have an equitable experience. It includes providing a variety of different work modes through the day for focusing, collaborating, learning and socializing. And it’s thoughtfully integrating furniture, technology and architectural systems to bring all the elements together.

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New Solutions for Hybrid Work

Hybrid work means people have choices. The office has to work harder to earn people’s commute and support the new ways they work. Our partner Steelcase has new hybrid spaces to bring people to the office.​

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Fast Modern Office

Fast Modern Office makes it easy to find fast and affordable furniture and technology with a sleek modern aesthetic. This simple step-by-step interactive guide walks you through workplace solutions to inspire your office design.

The New Office Design

The New Office Design presents hybrid work research and insights, thought starter spaces and new products by Steelcase. Use this guide to explore the possibilities of what a new hybrid office design could look like.

The Reimagined Office Guide

The Reimagined Office Design & Budget Guide showcases a new hybrid office space that gives employees something better to come back to. This interactive guide includes 3D renderings, products, and pricing for each application.

Featured Solutions

Microsoft Front Row Experience

The ultimate in equitable meeting experiences.

Front Row provides an outstanding platform for collaboration and innovation, ensuring all participants have an equal seat at the table. Red Thread’s East Hartford Showroom showcases the Front Row Experience, powered by Microsoft Teams. Dual displays are built within the Steelcase VIA wall system with LED lighting and a custom table designed by Create by Red Thread with integrated technology.

Learn more about Red Thread’s Front Row Experience

Spaceti | Space Management & Analytics

Return to the office safely & implement a hybrid workplace.

Real-time maps help employees and visitors book desks, meeting rooms, and even lockers. Use real-time or long-term 24/7 occupancy analytics to flexibly manage your workplace. Access data about workspace, meeting room and room occupancy to make smarter space decisions.

Learn more about Spaceti

Research

Research Highlights

When people like working from their office, they are more engaged, connected to the organization’s culture, productive and likely to stay

– Steelcase Global Report

People are willing to trade remote workdays for their own workspace at the office. While they want the autonomy and flexibility of hybrid work, people are looking for choice and control and a sense of belonging.

– Steelcase Global Report

53% of employees are more likely to prioritize health and well-being over work than before the pandemic.

– Microsoft Work Report

38% of hybrid employees say their biggest challenge is knowing when and why to come into the office.

– Microsoft Work Report

43% of leaders say relationship-building is the greatest challenge in remote and hybrid work.

– Microsoft Work Report

How We Can Help

The workplace has forever changed, and we are here to help.

As your consultative partner, we tailor solutions to meet your unique needs, aesthetic and budget.

Wherever you are in your journey, we’re here to help you, whether it’s understanding the needs of your employees and leadership through workshops and surveys, or co-developing designs and solutions that are just right for your space.

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Relevant Blogs

How to be an effective hybrid leader

How to be an effective hybrid leader

Much like hybrid work, hybrid leadership is not a one-size-fits-all; it looks different for everyone. As leaders embrace hybrid work, one of the biggest challenges they face is managing teams both remote and in-person. Unlike the beginning of the pandemic, when almost everyone went home all at once, the return has been fragmented as employees…

Red Thread’s Top Posts from 2022

Red Thread’s Top Posts from 2022

In the past year, we’ve seen a fundamental shift that is here to stay: hybrid work. Employees are figuring out where and how they get their best work done while organizations are still evolving their return to office strategies. Together, we’re all rethinking how the workplace can best support hybrid work — all without a…

3 Ways to Quickly Furnish your Modern Workplace

3 Ways to Quickly Furnish your Modern Workplace

Did you know you can quickly outfit a modern workplace with quality products and prices that fit any budget? AMQ is the leader in modular office furniture designed for dynamic, flexible systems with height adjustable bases, benching, and seating. Now more than ever, its quick, agile, and modern furniture solutions that are made to work…

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The Power of Microsoft Front Row

In today’s world, organizations can’t allow distance to be a barrier for effective collaboration. By: John Mitton, CTO – VP of Audio Visual, Red Thread Steelcase researchers have studied technology for remote workers and found that one of the problems they face is presence disparity. We all know what it’s like to be physically present…

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Workplace Innovation Hub: Our Move to 55 Hartland Street

What’s changed with our Red Thread Connecticut office? The way we shop, learn, entertain, and travel have dramatically changed since the pandemic – the same is true for the way we work. Fundamental patterns in our lives look completely different, accelerating existing trends and revealing new unmet needs. We have fully embraced a new hybrid…

What does a hybrid work model look like?

What is a hybrid work model?

The way we work has dramatically changed.  More and more organizations are moving to a hybrid work model that’s continuously evolving based on the aspirations and needs of its people. What is hybrid work? Hybrid work is an agile process where people have the flexibility and autonomy to choose how, where, and when they work.…

3 Ways to Implement a Digital Hybrid Workplace

3 Ways to Implement a Digital Hybrid Workplace

More and more companies are considering the shift to a digital hybrid workplace to encourage employees to do their best work, regardless of location. As the shift to hybrid work becomes a reality, organizations should consider adopting digital tools that not only support collaboration and communication, but also offer employee safety. With the right resources…

Breaking down the barriers of healthcare design

Breaking down the barriers of healthcare design

Healthcare design is all about creating spaces for the human factor. The pandemic has severely impacted healthcare for workers, patients, and caregivers; an already burdened profession that now faces even more stress as well as burnout, exhaustion, and trauma. However, healthcare design can help build a new culture of wellbeing within their organizations and create…

Three ways HR leaders can improve the hybrid work employee experience

Three ways HR leaders can improve the hybrid work employee experience

Microsoft’s new Work Trend Index Report reveals one major theme: we’re not the same people that went home to work in early 2020. As leaders tackle hybrid work, big questions loom: What is the role of the office? How do teams build social capital in a digital-first world? Every organization is up against meeting employees’ great…

5 Equitable Hybrid Work Environment Examples

Five Hybrid Work Technology Examples

Leadership recognizes how critical company culture is to engage and retain top talent. However, business leaders are at a crossroad on how to deliver a hybrid work technology strategy that provides flexibility and employee engagement while still encouraging people to return to the office. According to Microsoft’s 2021 Work Trend Index Report, over 70% of workers…

Three New Office Design Ideas to Inspire Creativity

Three New Office Design Ideas to Inspire Creativity

Employees have new and increased expectations of their employers and workplaces — craving a new office design dramatically different and better than the one they left. Recent Steelcase research uncovered those who have been comfortable at home, whether it be because they enjoyed a more relaxed environment or had created a space to work that…

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Red Thread’s Top Blogs of 2021

With 2021 in the rear view mirror, we’re reflecting on the top ten articles we’ve posted that will help shape future trends and topics in the new year. From workplace personas to hybrid work and returning to the office, this past year was full of workplace transformation strategies to bridge the gap between in-person and remote…

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