Does your work space have serendipity zones? All the research indicates that casual face to face chats among people of different skills is where new ideas are created. Company’s, as well as, Work place designers + strategits continue to strive to incorporate serendipity zones within their corporate landscape. GiveUsYourSpace + Purpose Driven Design + Serendipity Zones = Great IDEAS
The Wall Street Journal posted an article exploring serendipity to encourage interaction and innovation. Basically, the article talks about how companies should try smaller spaces, games; and trivia to help break awkward silences. We’ve posted a snippet below, but feel free to check out the full article here.
From Wallstreetjournal.com
Companies aren’t leaving serendipity to chance.
Firms are thinking up new ways to encourage interactions among employees who normally don’t work with each other. The hope is that these casual face-to-face chats among people with different skills might spark new ideas, lead to new solutions or at the least, increase workplace camaraderie.
To make those connections happen, some firms are taking a scientific approach—collecting and analyzing data about their teams and mathematically computing the likelihood that employees will meet. In some instances, they are squeezing workers into smaller spaces so they are more likely to bump into each other. In others, they are installing playful prompts, like trivia games, to get workers talking in traditional conversational dead zones, such as elevators.
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