LinkedIn Redesigned Its HQ for Hybrid Work

The new hybrid working headquarters for LinkedIn must be built with all use cases in mind, from heads-down work to social gatherings.

For LinkedIn, the goal is clear: Make hybrid work more viable and sustainable.

According to Gallup, more than half of people who can work remotely expect or prefer to do so at least part of the time from now on.

LinkedIn’s 250,000-square-foot global headquarters, called B1, was designed on the existing 29-acre campus in Silicon Valley for hybrid working.

Social Work Matters

Diverse functions and preferences should be accommodated in the office. That might be a place where working parents can focus on their work without being disturbed by household duties and responsibilities.

For many Gen Z workers, going back to work is a pleasant chance to find the spaces for in-person mentoring, learning opportunities, and growth that they mostly missed during the pandemic.

The majority of employees are seeking opportunities to create (or rebuild) the social capital that has deteriorated during the previous two years.

It’s what Stanford economist Nick Bloom calls social work, and it includes training, mentoring, and collaborative thinking that all companies try to center as the selling point of being in the office. 

Make the workplace efficient for all work types

Due to this, the new headquarters of LinkedIn have rooms that may be used for rest, attention, collaboration, learning, and socialization.

During the lockout, they discovered that when employees have more personal autonomy, productivity increases. People need to be able to establish personalized routines and rhythms in the workplace that seem right to them. This also applies to working from home when it deems appropriate.

One of the most significant changes LinkedIn made to the pre-pandemic headquarters design was to replace the traditional workstations, which made up about 40% of the space, with a number of seating areas, each of which served as a distinct “neighborhood” for a different team and was arranged to accommodate their typical activities.

Additionally, the entire structure is vertically designed to correspond to a gradient of work styles, with the most social on the ground floor and the most heads-down at the top.

Improve diversity in the workplace

An increasingly complex and diverse workforce, including people with physical and cognitive disabilities, requires that workplace culture in general, and office design, in particular, reflect this.

Therefore, all decisions made by LinkedIn for the new headquarters were guided by inclusive design principles.

LinkedIn evaluated everything from ramps to light and glare, stimulation level to acoustics, and degree of privacy to furniture that would allow 60 different postures, taking into account conditions like paralysis, visual or auditory impairment, neurodivergence, anxiety, and more.

Based on LinkedIn, when they inaugurated our new HQ, 63% of staff who were formally assigned to other buildings have come to B1, taking advantage of the range of work zones, amenities, and configurations the space offers. Employees are still able to work from home or on campus.

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