The veteran of the Co-working industry welcomes a new fit-out with new offerings.
Melbourne’s first community-led Co-working office space home to over 6,000 members, Located in the heart of Richmond, inside the heritage-listed Australian Knitting Mills Building recently completed a large scale transformation of its offerings and design, spending the Melbourne corona-virus lock-down, fitting out its office space.
The way we work was changing, and more than ever in 2020! Melbourne went into its first lock-down, companies were sending people to work from home, everything around us seemed surreal, dull and gloomy. What’s going to happen to the co-working industry? there were so many answers. We believed that an office would remain core to a business, a location would always be needed. As we emerged from the first lock-down the light at the end of the tunnel become bright and what we believed was being proven.
A large spike of enquiries from companies and individuals was coming through almost daily. We were on track to re-fill our space to full capacity within a matter of weeks. So we had to ask the question, Why? and the responses we got cemented what we believed.
What companies said;
We need to downsize.
Cut the cost from a traditional lease. The numbers were crunched co-working space is cheaper than a traditional office lease.
Productivity and company growth was beginning to slow down.
We want flexibility.
Space where we can come to keep our company culture alive, collaborate, engage and train staff. An interesting response we got, “A footballer can get fit training alone, but solo training all the time is not the way to produce a premiership-winning team”
What individuals said;
25% productivity was beginning to decline.
25% the line between home and work was beginning to become blurred. “The dining, kitchen table and lounge areas became the office”.
20% Needing social interaction, mental health. “It’s just a nice feeling being around people again”.
15% interference from family or are house sharing.
15% Burned out “working longer hours, couldn’t seem to switch off”.
We knew co-working was a growing trend with its flexible offerings, but a pandemic would test the best of companies on their future. We weren’t expecting a strong second wave.
The unexpected happened, the second lock-down arrived shortly after, members were forced once again to return to work from home. And so we decided it was time!
We closed down and decided time to re-invent ourselves. Inspire9 kicked off it’s much awaited fit-out project to create a workspace around the following core values, services and products;
A workspace that encouraged collaboration, culture and social interaction.
A space that felt uncrowded.
Designed in a way that increased mindset for productivity and keeps people feeling energised and happy.
Flexible offerings that revolved around our clients and people needing our service.
Ergonomic office furniture.
Architecturally designed meeting rooms and private office spaces.
Work-life balance.
Hassle free meeting room booking systems.
Touch-less bathroom facilities.
Secure easy access.
A space where you love work.
Office space is more than just a place people come and sit at a desk, it needs to be designed with the right tools to help our clients grow quickly to get ideas out and work productively. They need a reason to come in and with the new fit-out, inspire9 has now built this reason.
Everything has been thought out and we can say we are extremely proud of the space it has transformed into. Our memberships and offers continue to change as so do our clients needs.
