First published on COMUNiTI, September 2024

How People & Culture teams are repositioning this Boardroom conversation

“Can you help me explain what a workplace strategy is, to my leadership team?”

It’s a question that we get asked a lot at COMUNiTI, and it’s easy to understand why: while workplace strategy is a pivotal concept for forward-thinking organisations, it continues to be misunderstood among many executive teams, who consider their workplace as simply a “place to accommodate people to work”, resulting in a desk + chair approach where they see no strategy is needed.  

Re-imagining, redesigning, recreating, and rebuilding a workplace often falls in the remit of the Facilities Management, Operations, or Accommodation teams. HOWEVER, what this approach fails to acknowledge is that our workplaces are created for PEOPLE.  To ensure that organisations consider all aspects of what people need to thrive at work, the workplace strategy conversation must be three-way between the Facil...