Minneapolis Downtown Office Group

Accenture’s “café” has a coffee bar, a small kitchen and a long, walnut table with barstools.

As Finance & Commerce reports, a funny thing happened after Accenture moved into a new office where no one has assigned space: More employees started coming in to work.

A mobile staff of about 1,500 based in downtown Minneapolis, Accenture’s employees tend to be traveling or working in clients’ offices. When they’re in town, they can just as easily work at home or a coffee shop.

But with Accenture’s new space — replete with inviting mixes of open, semiprivate and collaborative options plus oodles of technology — the firm is seeing more employees docking into various workspaces.

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Cassidy Turley’s Minneapolis office in the IDS Center provides workstations with sit-stand options for employees like intern Shane Thompson, foreground.

According to Finance & Commerce, when the Minneapolis office of Cassidy Turley designed its new office space in the IDS Center, it threw out the old, traditional model where employees were assigned workspace based on their level in the organization. Like many companies, its senior leaders occupied private offices around the perimeter and junior and support staff worked at internal workstations.

The commercial real estate company decided it was time to break tradition and knock down the walls. In fact, Cassidy Turley’s new space has very few hard walls, and the company virtually eliminated the once highly coveted, private offices. It also did away with standard cubicles, conventional meeting rooms and space-wasting file cabinets.

Instead, its 12,500-square-foot space on the tower’s 14th floor features… Read More >>