Case Study
Defining and Creating Workplace Strategies—Quickly
When a global multi-level marketing company—the sixth largest in North America, with a very strong history and brand—set out to build a new manufacturing facility, its leadership asked Haworth for help. They needed to create a workplace strategy that supported their organization, people, and facility needs—and they needed it pronto. As with most workspaces in a manufacturing facility, this company’s floorplate had evolved over 30+ years in an ad-hoc approach. As spaces freed up, teams would populate vacant spaces and make them work for any and all types of tasks. The challenge with this approach was that spaces rarely worked correctly to support the team’s organizational, people, or facility needs. Either it was too big, and the extra space became a storage area, or more people wer