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Hybrid work: why also turn to external workplaces?

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Hybrid work: why also turn to external workplaces?

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Hybrid work: why also turn to external workplaces?

In the context of hybrid work, alternating face-to-face and remote work, fewer employees go to the company's premises every day. External workspaces have become an alternative to optimize the real estate strategies of organizations and make the most of their unoccupied work space. Let's take a closer look at this new trend.

External workplaces: what options do you have?

Today, a multitude ofexternal workspaces exist on the market. Each of them offers a specific environment, which can meet the different needs of your employees:


These places are organized in different ways. They can be meeting rooms oropen spaces that accommodate a limited number of professionals. In all cases, you can choose between the following two offers:

  • flexible, no-commitment, on-demand offices;

offices attached to the company, rented in coworking spaces with a weekly, monthly or yearly commitment, but with a little less flexibility.

Facilitating the transition to hybrid work

Providing your employees with external workplaces that can accommodate them can help you accelerate your transition to a hybrid workThere are several reasons for this. 

On the one hand, from a practical standpoint, this mode of operation reduces the costs of unoccupied office space. This means you can adjust the workspace to suit each other's uses to save money, and use the external workspaces as an adjustment tank for busy days.

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On the other hand, external workplaces promote well-being at work and considerably improve the daily life of your employees: 

  • they have the opportunity to meet colleagues in a new professional environment;
  • they can vary their routine;
  • their creativity and productivity are stimulated;
  • their workdays are more flexible;
  • they reduce their transportation time and travel costs.

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To make sure you offer the right external workplaces for your employees' needs and desires, ask them: don't hesitate to collect their feedback as you implement the hybrid work mode in order to make the process evolve in real time.

Expanding your workspaces outside the company requires good organization. Several steps are necessary to ensure the success of this process: assessing the needs of your employees, finding the right external workplaces, setting up a technological infrastructure, training employees... 

With the worklib methodology, you will have all the keys to implement hybrid work in your company!

-> I discover the guide step by step

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3 out of 4 employees say they are willing to change jobs to find a company closer to home.

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40 %

of corporate office space is empty, resulting in unnecessary expenses and energy waste.

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