Carol Colbert, Director of Global Workplace Strategy and Innovation at The Coca-Cola Company, hired a space design professional to collaborate on the redesign of The Coca-Cola Company’s Singapore headquarters. 

Coca-Cola’s new hybrid workplace  

Coca-Cola provided employees with some communal areas to relax and connect with colleagues, which means the new workplace incorporates the communication culture of Singapore. 

Another important part is that the redesigned office has a more casual and open work area where there is a corridor with a view of the sea, allowing employees to work in a comfortable and beautiful work environment.

Colbert and space design professional Anoma Baste also equipped the space with some open seating arrangements and bike desks facing toward the water, so employees can exercise while working, helping to reduce work stress. 

Moreover, Baste says the space was designed to allow employees to “take some time to sit quietly and meditate, [and] do some quiet work.”  The result is they have found it to be a very popular workplace for employees because the quiet workspace helps staff to relax and contributes to the quality and productivity of their work. 

What else is Coca-Cola focused on? 

Colbert and baste worked on redesigning and transforming Coca-Cola’s Singapore location to enable hybrid working. The redesigned office features fewer fixed elements and walls, plus provides mobile equipment, such as hot desks, to support employees to work flexibly. 

Additionally, Coca-Cola “relies heavily on Microsoft Teams” and is working on “pop-up technology”. The aim is they want to offer some multi-functional communication tools and technology for employees, allowing them to communicate and collaborate with various colleagues and support remote colleagues back in the office work seamlessly. 

Reason for Coca-Cola implementing hybrid work 

Coca-Cola’s workplace rights policy is comprised of provisions outlined in international human rights standards, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Coca-Cola states its mission in developing the policy, stating “We value our relationship with our employees.”  

They are committed to creating an open and inclusive workplace based on recognized workplace human rights, where all employees are valued and motivated to be their best selves.

As a result, they have decided to give employees flexibility in their work by implementing flexible work and allowing them to arrange their own personalized work schedules by themselves. Also, Coca-cola believed that these approaches can help them to retain talent.  

What setup can support a hybrid office? 

A hybrid office should use a functional office management system, which helps Singapore employees use office resources efficiently, such as rooms, desks, and office equipment, and support them to have remote work and virtual meetings with their colleagues in the office.      

ONES is one of the famous all-in-one smart office systems that can help you to easily implement hybrid working at ease.  Coca-Cola Hong Kong has already implemented ONES in their office which can easily help them to perform virtual meetings, desk hoteling, and digital office management with our Room Booking, Desk Booking, and Visitor Management features.    

Contact us: hello@ones.software, or visit ONES Software official website for more information: https://ones.software/.   

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Moreover, the Indonesian government intends to further implement a Work-from-Anywhere (WFA) policy and plans to implement it for civil servants. 

About WFA in Indonesia 

“The application of WFA was intended to increase the effectiveness of ASN performance and provide efficiency to government bureaucracy…The important thing is that performance and targets are achieved,”

Satya Pratama, the Head of the Legal, Public Relations, and Cooperation Bureau of the Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Ministry.

WFA is a more flexible working system, allowing workers to work anywhere in the future. It doesn’t require people to work from a specific place, like home, or with mandatory office hours.

Employees can decide their work location, work hour, and workflow. However, it would not be available for civil servants whose work require to be in direct contact with the public, such as medical staff or firefighters. Just in Jakarta, there are already 3,964 companies have implemented the WFH policy.

The Indonesian government believed that a flexible working model can help employees to increase their productivity. In fact, it has many reasons to implement WFA with some data support. 

Increases the production growth rate of companies  

A survey from the famous consulting firm Accenture found that 83% of workers in Indonesia prefer a hybrid model for work. It also found that over 67% of companies have high business growth after switching to a work-from-anywhere model. 

Meanwhile, the majority of companies remain focused on where people are going to work physically, and they are ‘no-growth’ in their businesses.    

Reducing business operating costs and allowance 

Some leading giant Indonesian companies have already implemented a hybrid working mode, for example, Blibli.com. It is one of the well-known e-commerce sites in Indonesia and has officially implemented the WFA system since January 2022.  

They announced their employees can work from anywhere and changed their office to be coworking office to support the hybrid workers. A coworking office is a shared office, it helps WFA and provides a variety of flexible working facilities (for example hot desking), relaxation zones, and a soundless booth apart from any traditional office. Using hot desks can reduce the cost of buying fixed desks, also reducing the necessity of huge space demand and rent.  

In addition, some data shows only about 48.9% of startups survived higher rents in 2021. According to data published by the Indonesian Venture Capital Association (Amvesindo) on the IDX channel, it is highlighted that up to 10-15% of startups might also be facing closing due to the inability to compete.   

But, if startups and SMEs implement hybrid work and use coworking offices, it can help them to run their businesses with less capital and decrease the chance of closure. This means that the Indonesian government can reduce the total amount of annual subsidies to these companies. 

Sustainable Development Solutions for Office

As mentioned above, a coworking office is just like a mini community, which allows different entrepreneurs and people to work together in a shared environment.

This gives them more opportunities to learn others’ skills and helps to train more talents, therefore it enhances the sustainability of business activities in the future. This approach was agreed upon by Digital Economist Researcher Nailul Huda. 

What do you need for hybrid working 

ONES is one of the famous all-in-one smart office systems that can help you to easily implement hybrid working at ease in Indonesia.  You can easily perform virtual meetings, desk hoteling, and digital office management with our Room Booking, Desk Booking, and Visitor Management features.     

ONES Software now has a dedicated page to introduce a series of hybrid working measures to help you solve problems. You may wish to go to https://ones.software/hybrid-workspace/ for further reference.    

Contact us: hello@ones.software, or visit ONES Software official website for more information: https://ones.software/id. 

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