The Pivot Point: Insights into the Workplace Revolution The Pivot Point: Insights into the Workplace Revolution

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The COVID-19 pandemic has become a glaring pivot point for these spaces, presenting organizations and their leaders with an unprecedented opportunity to rethink the fundamentals of the physical workplace. How will we each adapt, manage and reimagine the office of the future? What will it look like? Do we need it at all?

In the past three decades, a series of revolutions in office design have shown us time and time again that it is more than the physical space. The office is a place where people come together to collaborate, create, innovate, strategize and execute. It is a definer of culture and a driver of brands.

Sam is the President & Founder of DORIS Research. She started her career in Indianapolis as an Interior Designer at RJE Business Interiors before returning to school in 2010 to earn her MFA in Design Thinking & Design Research from Indiana University’s Herron School of Art and Design. In 2012, Sam founded DORIS Research. Since the founding of the company, Sam has worked with hundreds of organizations in many different industries across the country. In 2019, DORIS franchised and now has three locations across the country. Sam is an alumnus of the forty first Stanley K Lacey (SKL) executive leadership class and was named a member of the IBJ’s Forty under 40 class in February of 2019. She lives in downtown Indianapolis with her husband, Chris, their three sons - Henry, Jasper, and Louie - and their dog, Porter.

Meghan Tooman is the Vice President of Operations for DORIS. After earning her MS in Applied Statistics, she taught statistics courses at Purdue University and IUPUI while also maintaining her own successful consulting business, Statistical Research Solutions. She recently received her PStat® accreditation from the American Statistical Association. Meghan ensures that DORIS pioneers innovative research practices that establish the company as an industry leader. She has developed new methods for measuring and reporting workplace utilization and more recently virtually regarding meetings and collaborative encounters. Meghan lives on the northwest side of Indianapolis with her husband, Adam, and her daughter, Nora.

Maria is a Lead Project Strategist at DORIS. After a decade working in event management and higher education marketing, she earned an M.F.A. focused on Design Thinking and Design Leadership from the Indiana University Herron School of Art and Design, where she was named a University Innovation Fellow by Stanford University. She has successfully worked with organizations to demonstrate the design thinking process and its applications, build soft skills like empathy and inclusivity, and catalyze them to co-create actionable solutions founded in people’s lived experiences. Maria is also a versatile improviser and actor who has been performing for over 25 years. She’s driven by a mission to help everyone access and use their creativity, however it manifests.

It can be easy to think about collaboration, creativity, innovation, strategy, and productivity as isolated factors. However, research indicates that it is much more complex. This presentation outlines how these drivers work with and against each other to create individualized systems in each workplace.

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DORIS is a workplace research firm that uses design thinking to understand what makes people's spaces (and, by extension, their teams) effective.

Who is DORIS?

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Organizations will need to define their specific criteria for where and how they want their employees to work whether they be at home, in the office or both. This presentation offers the data and insight to determine how much effort they will need to apply to each of the five drivers.

Some drivers thrive in the office, such as collaboration and communication, whereas productivity thrives at home. This research discusses how organizations and individuals will need to assess which drivers matter the most to move their businesses forward.

Choosing both, often called the “hybrid approach,” is not as simple as it sounds. Our workspaces naturally support collaboration, innovation and strategy. This research outlines what we have learned over the past year and how recreating these conditions virtually or in a hybrid setting will take significantly more effort.

INSIGHTS INTO THE WORKPLACE REVOLUTION

Workplace research group, DORIS, has set out to find answers to these questions, provide clarity and spark creativity with their latest study, “The Pivot Point.” Because 2020 made one thing clear: the way we work together is changing.

MEET THE RESEARCH TEAM

CUSHMAN WAKEFIELD'S STUDY "PURPOSE OF PLACE: HISTORY AND FUTURE OF THE OFFICE"

SAMANTHA JULKA

MEGHAN TOOMAN

MARIA MESCHI

KEY INSIGHTS

DIG EVEN DEEPER

Design Responds to a Changing World

GENSLER

KNOLL

The Thriving Workplace

Purpose of Place: History and Future of the Office

CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD

PRESENTED BY

SAMANTHA JULKA

President + Founder

Sam started her career in Indianapolis as an Interior Designer at RJE Business Interiors, before returning to school in 2010 to earn her MFA in Design Thinking & Design Research from Indiana University’s Herron School of Art and Design. In 2012, Sam founded DORIS Research. Since the founding of the company, Sam has worked with hundreds of organizations in many different industries across the country. In 2019 DORIS franchised and now operates as a franchise in three locations across the country. Sam is an alumnus of the forty first Stanley K Lacey (SKL) executive leadership class and was named a member of the IBJ’s Forty under 40 class in February of 2019. Sam lives in downtown Indianapolis with her husband, Chris, their three sons - Henry, Jasper, and Louie - and their dog, Porter.

MARIA MESCHI

Lead Project Strategist

After a decade working in event management and higher education marketing, she earned an M.F.A. focused on Design Thinking and Design Leadership from the Indiana University Herron School of Art and Design, where she was named a University Innovation Fellow by Stanford University. She has successfully worked with organizations to demonstrate the design thinking process and its applications, build soft skills like empathy and inclusivity, and catalyze them to co-create actionable solutions founded in people’s lived experiences. Maria is also a versatile improviser and actor who has been performing for over 25 years. She’s driven by a mission to help everyone access and use their creativity, however it manifests.

MEGHAN TOOMAN

Vice President Operations

After earning her MS in Applied Statistics, she taught statistics courses at Purdue University and IUPUI while also maintaining her own successful consulting business, Statistical Research Solutions. She recently received her PStat® accreditation from the American Statistical Association. Meghan ensures that DORIS pioneers innovative research practices that establish the company as an industry leader. She has developed new methods for measuring and reporting workplace utilization and more recently virtually regarding meetings and collaborative encounters. Meghan lives on the northwest side of Indianapolis with her husband, Adam, and her daughter, Nora.

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COLLABORATION

CREATIVITY

INNOVATION

STRATEGY

PRODUCTIVITY

INNOVATION

CREATIVITY

FUNDAMENTALS

STRATEGY

GENERATORS

COLLABORATION

PRODUCTIVITY

DRIVER

CREATIVITY ENERGY

PRODUCTIVITY RESPONSIBILITY

OFFICE ONLY

HOME ONLY

HYBRID

OFFICE ONLY

HOME ONLY

HYBRID

INNOVATION COMMUNICATION

COLLABORATION ACCESSIBILITY

STRATEGY EFFORT

STRATEGY

INNOVATION

CREATIVITY

COLLABORATION

PRODUCTIVITY

PAST

PRESENT

FUTURE

Has the Pandemic Transformed the Office Forever?

THE NEW YORKER

The Office Strikes Back

PROPMODO

Looking Back, Looking Forward: Workforce Lessons for 2021

METROPOLIS

WORKDESIGN MAGAZINE

Paradigm Shift Needed to Foster the New Creative Office

Forging the New Frontier of the Workspace's Next Normal

NEOCONNECT

HOME ONLY

HYBRID

OFFICE ONLY

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The design community's response to the pandemic has led to a greater emphasis on flexibility, wellness and a human-centered approach. As we continue to redefine the workplace, gain more insights from industry leaders about what's to come next.

Alexis Miranne

AOS

DORIS

Meghan Tooman

DORIS

Maria Meschi

DORIS

Samantha Julka

Alexis works every day to build faster, cleaner, smarter interior spaces. As a business developer and workplace strategist at AOS Interior Environments, her primary goals include cultivating relationships across the Gulf Coast region and helping clients build more intentional and resilient spaces to work, heal, and learn. She acts as a go-to manufactured interior construction educator and serves as a project liaison to an internal team of designers.

ALEXIS MIRANNE

Business Development + Workplace Strategist

HELLO HYBRID

It's not a question of if an organization is ready to implement a hybrid work model, it's a question of when and how. That is where Hello Hybrid comes in. It was created from rich research, based in anthropological methods, to guide you through making actionable decisions around the hybrid work environment specific to your team and organization.

CHOOSE YOUR PATH

WORKPLACE PLAYBOOK

90-MIN. WORKSHOPS

The Hello Hybrid workplace playbook is a self-guided, interactive tool that consists of several topics you'll need to focus on as you think about your future work-model.

DORIS designed a series of workshops to facilitate your team through the decision-making process and help take that burden off your shoulders.

Utilize interactive playbooks, a series of collaborative workshops or both for exercises designed to help your company navigate and implement a hybrid model.

WHAT YOU GET

"How hybrid" assessment to help organizations get off on the right foot

Action + Communciation Plans to help you make and execute decisions

Exercises designed to help teams navigate the multitude of questions around the hybrid work environment

Want to learn more about Hello Hybrid?

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PIVOT POINT

KEY INSIGHTS

HELLO HYBRID

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The Hybrid Work Model: Ready or Not, Here It Comes

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Strategic Elements of Post-Pandemc Workplace Design

METROPOLIS

The World Has Changed, So Should Our Approach to Work

WORKDESIGN MAGAZINE