The facilities team at HootSuite decided to rip out 500 desks in its Vancouver headquarters and replace them with a combination of sit-stand workstations, meeting pods, bikes and treadmill desks.
People questioned whether the company’s expensive gamble on hybrid work would pay off.
“Maybe it’s going to work well and maybe it isn’t, but I think we need to try it and see how it goes,” says Carol Waldman, Hootsuite’s director of global facilities.
Workplace design has come a long way, and fortunately, cubicles might be on the way out.