When it comes to wellbeing, at Workman we believe that healthy habits underpin positivity and productivity in the workplace. As such, we are keen to share ways to help people embrace fit and healthy lifestyles within occupiers across our managed portfolio.
Next week, our Welcome team will run its own Activity Week, featuring activities and events for various properties – taking place both online and onsite – to offer tips and tools on how to be more active, both at work and at home.
The timetable of sessions, specifically curated for the Welcome properties and their occupiers, will give teams and communities the chance to come together and take part in fun events – all focused on making active choices that deliver a healthy future.
Welcome’s Activity Week will feature:
💥Exercise workshops from Outrivals Gym, MYPT Studio, Nuffield, Gym Box, Revolution PT Studios, Third Space Personal Trainers and Fitness First,
💥Yoga classes from expert teacher Rossella Forastiero and the Lotus School of Yoga,
💥Sports including putting golf, football and basketball shoot-outs,
💥Posture health-checks from Optimal Spine, chai massage,
💥Nutrition pop-ups from Zooki, The Shoegaze Vegan, Mr Tinto and Juice Da Cruz.
💥Mental health and wellbeing will also be addressed with breathing exercise sessions, and health checks from the Asian Resource Centre.
At Workman, we’re doing all we can to help our occupiers and their staff enjoy their workplace in healthy and active ways. Employees at Welcome-managed properties including Aldgate House, Queensbury House, Six Mitre Passage, 10 Fleet Place, 40 Portman Square, 80 Cheapside, 100 New Oxford Street, and 1 Dean Street are invited to attend next week’s events, and embrace all that a healthy and active lifestyle has to offer.
Presenting the programme, Monika Newton, Partner within the Welcome team, said:
“As occupiers and their employees make the office a regular part of their lives once again, we want to demonstrate how important health and wellbeing is and what a difference these activities can make to their enjoyment of their working environment. Our management and site teams have worked hard to create this exciting week, which showcases what’s available throughout the year. We hope all our occupiers take the opportunity to enjoy what’s on offer.”
Follow @welcomeoffices and Welcome – Workman Offices (@welcomeoffices) • Instagram photos and videos throughout the week to see what’s going on.
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Building Community: the Workman way
At Workman, we are committed to creating an outstanding customer experience for occupiers and our Building Community campaign showcases the benefits that this commitment to the occupier experience can have.
A sense of place and togetherness creates community within buildings. This ethos has informed the development of our occupier engagement initiatives, which aim to bring people together across commercial property.
By raising the standard of occupier engagement, our property management style and creative approach deliver services that make Workman-managed properties much more than simply a desk and a chair.
Today’s commercial property must offer stimulating, social environments that support employees’ and customers’ physical and mental wellbeing in an environmentally responsible way.
Property management strategies should be designed to create communities where buildings add value to their end-users’ experience and environment, persuading them that the workplace is once again a thriving hub.
Our Building Community magazine has been produced to highlight the value of, and our expertise in, creating environments where occupiers want to stay. In it, we consider;
- the role of technology in creating a great occupier experience,
- why regularly seeking occupier feedback is vital, and how best to it with Real Service,
- the role commercial destinations can play in creating positive social impact within their communities,
- some of the most effective ways to build real communities within commercial locations.
Read more about our property management services and how we can build communities here.
Benchmarking a property’s wellbeing performance helps with occupier engagement, retention, attraction and the asset’s overall investment performance. But what exactly is ‘it’, do you really need it, and if you do, how do you implement and measure it?
We invited guests to join us to discuss the issue at a seminar hosted at Republic in London which is managed by Workman and owned by Trilogy. This multi-occupied property has undergone extensive refurbishment and has the wellbeing of occupiers at the heart of the management strategy.
The key drivers and investment performance
The event began with a thought-provoking presentation from Joanna Frank, President and CEO at the Centre for Active Design (CfAD) – the operator of Fitwel.
Joanna’s presentation was focused on the value of Fitwel for investors and occupiers, with some surprising statistics on the key drivers of the wellbeing trend and the impact that it can have on the investment performance.
Some of the key statistics and discussion points have been included in our event summary document which you can download.
If you would like a copy of the Fitwel presentation please contact us.
A carefully curated panel
We carefully selected the Q&A panellists to provide the investor, manager and occupier perspectives to debate the issue of wellbeing in property, how to implement a wellbeing programme and the benefits of doing so.
The panel discussion was facilitated by Sarah Ratcliffe of the Better Buildings Partnership.
Ben Dickins, Asset Manager For APAM, provided the investor’s perspective. Ben is the Asset Manager for Arlington Business Park, the first in the UK to achieve Fitwel certification.
Liz Allister, Park Development Manager at the award-winning Birmingham Business Park provided an insight on the practicalities of implementing and managing a wellbeing programme and the results that a successful programme can deliver – particularly around occupier retention and the impact that positive PR has had on raising the park’s profile, attracting more occupiers.
James Pack, Managing Director of Integral Group gave us the occupier’s perspective of implementing the Fitwel standard. James and his colleagues successfully achieved Europe’s first Fitwel certification for their own office space back in 2017.
For more information on how to implement a wellbeing programme – and achieve certified Fitwel status – either at a single asset or across a portfolio please do not hesitate to contact me, I’ll be happy to help.
NICK HOBBS
As part of our approach to the health and wellbeing of our occupiers, the Welcome team are working with Cycling Score to improve cycling facilities across the portfolio. Cycling Score certification is the new accreditation designed to assess the quality of cycling facilities offered at buildings. Certification is now either complete or underway at 10 Welcome buildings comprising over two million square feet.
Cycling Score’s mission is to see standards improve for occupiers who choose more active lifestyles, by recognising assets with ‘best in class provision’. The Cycling Score Certification process begins with an assessment of a building and demonstrates how exactly to raise the standard of facilities and services within a building, creating a happier, healthier workplace for occupiers. It can also be used in the planning process for new developments.
Over 100 buildings in the UK have already adopted Cycling Score Certification as landlords and developers begin to recognise the business case for ‘best in class’ facilities and services for occupiers. Cycling Score benchmarks against BREEAM, LEED and also each asset’s local borough planning guidance. They are also the global advisors to WELL Certification.
The Cycling Score “BUG” programme is being rolled out across the Welcome assets as a key wellbeing initiative during 2019
In addition to the initial certification, Cycling Score also facilitates a programme of occupier engagement services which perfectly complement the Welcome approach. Their new platform called the Cycling Score BUG (Bicycle User Group) enables cyclists to set up teams, compete against others in the building and even compete against buildings all over the globe. The Cycling Score BUG programme is being rolled out across the Welcome assets as a key health and wellbeing initiative during 2019, as part of our overall approach to delivering an enhanced level of occupier experience within our assets and we look forward to seeing the results.