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At Claremont we’ve worked with a broad range of Housing Providers and understand how the sectors traditional pressures and operating challenges have now been compounded by the Welfare Reform changes, and in particular the roll out of Universal Credit. Throwing in the added complexity of a global pandemic, there has never been a better opportunity to consider the use of office space and the wider property portfolio.
Our sector expertise
These challenges have contributed to considerable financial pressure and has driven Providers to increase commercial activity alongside fulfilling the traditional and never more crucial social service. Whilst also a growing trend for mergers and acquisitions has highlighted problems around bringing brands and different workforces together, who may be geographically dispersed, through both agile working and different office locations.
Organisations are also changing how they interact with customers, as tenant profiles change and the drive for digital inclusion intensifies. This leads to a more diverse skillset requirement for providers and we’ve witnessed a ‘war for talent’ which historically we’ve seen more acutely within our tech and professional service clients.
We understand that the wellbeing, both physical and mental, of colleagues is of paramount importance. Alongside a significant increase in workforce mobility with a shift from office based, to more flexible and community-based colleagues.
We pride ourselves in using space to help solve sector-based challenges. The workspaces we create provide agile, future proofed, value creating workspaces which are supportive of wellbeing and help incorporate and create a sense of community for disparate colleagues & brands.
Our dedicated in-house workspace consultancy teams work with Housing Providers from the outset on scoping space options, understanding both colleague & customer requirements and how they need to operate within a workspace. In most instances our consultancy teams, using both qualitative colleague perception & opinion supported by quantifiable data-driven analysis, identify opportunities to reduce office space down and implement agile working – usually leading to cost savings and cost-neutral fit out projects.
Why consider your space?
Develop a happier, more wellbeing focussed working environment
Define your culture and brand effectively
Drive greater retention and recruitment
Claremont shared our commitment to sustainability and showed exceptional M&E expertise and problem solving. In particular we are very pleased they could upgrade our original light fittings as they were integral to the building’s character. The finished space is distinct and unique and perfectly reflects who we are as an organisation.
Scott Bridge
Housing Services Director, Eastlight Community Homes
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