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    Shoosmiths

    Shoosmiths’ brief asked Claremont to help the firm achieve its goal for an agile working environment that will attract and retain the best people, deliver working efficiencies to benefit clients and use technology to increase flexibility.

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    Home → Our Work → Shoosmiths, Thames Valley

    Sector

    Legal

    Location

    Thames Valley

    Size

    18,000 sq ft

    Duration

    19 weeks

    Scope

    Workplace consultancy

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    The Challenge

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    Create the law firm's first agile workplace

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    Redesign & refurbish across two floors

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    Install a plethora of breakout spaces

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    Ensure agile working is well recieved by Shoosmiths' staff

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    In particular, the brief asked Claremont to redesign and refurbish its two-floor office in Apex Plaza and to introduce a variety of activity-based work settings to support the firm’s agile and wellbeing vision. The brief called for more variety and dynamism in the work environment, more effective co-location of teams and better use of the available space.

    This is one of several projects Claremont has delivered for Shoosmiths and the two teams worked closely together to deliver a striking and inspiring environment that empowers staff to choose the right workspace for the task.

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    The introduction of agile working affords Thames Valley staff even greater opportunity to work flexibly and sees the team move from owned to shared spaces by reducing the proportion of floor plate dedicated to traditional desking in favour of more varied work settings. Now, the majority of staff do not have an allocated desk and are encouraged to choose their workspace each day.

    A plethora of central and local breakout and touch down spaces, quiet pods, scrum spaces, huddle zones, sofas and a media bar have been peppered across both floors to provide plenty of ‘away-from-the desk’ options.

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    Storage has been rationalised and made more central to teams, opening up the working areas and vistas across the space. The Forum, a shared café-style central breakout and informal work zone, has been introduced adjacent to the refurbished client suite, which is intended both as a social and informal workspace.

    The office has been designed as a series of department neighbourhoods, each of which has been co-located to support working practices and deliver greater process efficiencies. In addition, Shoosmiths’ clean desk policy required adequate provision for personal lockers, the storage of coats and paperwork. The new office reflects Shoosmiths’ overall look and feel with the brand brought to life through splashes of bright green and use of their logo.

    A post occupancy report was created after the move to identify how effectively the new office was performing for Shoosmiths. In summary, Claremont found that communication within the office has improved and employees have welcomed the inspiring new work environment.

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