The new HQ also houses research and development, a data center, training facilities, formal and informal meeting spaces, multipurpose work cafes, and a range of workstations that offer employees the flexibility to work in an environment that best suits their individual workstyles. Encompassing six floors, the new headquarters includes an innovation hub that showcases Schneider’s leading-edge technology, some of which is incorporated into the design. The Middle Tennessee project is a fit-out of 150,000 square feet of the Two Franklin Park office building in Cool Springs. The hubs have become popular destination zones in which employees from different departments can mix and mingle, creating new synergies, and connecting colleagues who may have never run into each other in the previous workplace. The Nashville hub’s communicating stairs connect the centralized hubs on each floor encouraging activity, and allowing employees to move freely and easily throughout the space.

The flexible work arrangements and mobility tools deployed as part of the workplace strategy have also enabled Schneider Electric to move successfully to a remote workforce in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, and will aid in the company’s phased re-entry back into the workplace. The consolidation of Schneider Electric’s Middle Tennessee office locations into the Nashville hub has reduced their real estate by 45%, significantly increased employee engagement, and maintained their high retention rate. This mostly free-address system allows staff to work from anywhere inside or outside of the building that best supports their productivity without being unnecessarily tethered to a specific location. Our activity-based design solutions and guidance effectively supported their change in office culture from assigned seating to 80% of their workforce moving to a free-address environment. Located in Franklin, Tennessee, Schneider Electric’s Nashville hub represents the largest deployment of their “Workplace of the Future” strategy. Through our design, Schneider has been able to build more productive, collaborative and inspired workplaces that have led to increased employee engagement and retention. Our goal was to create alignment between business, culture and workplace that provides an experience. When Schneider Electric sought to create world class facilities in Nashville, Boston, Calgary and Dallas through a variety of consolidations, they called on Gresham Smith.

Gresham Smith has realized the design of the Schneider Electric offices, an energy and automation digital solutions company, located in Nashville, Tennessee. Location Nashville, Tennessee, United States ,.

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