Unconventional office trends in Romania: colourful, relaxing & green

Colorful open spaces, thematic designs, relaxation rooms, hammocks, swings and sofas for afternoon rest or indoor cycling tracks and gyms: today's offices have received an upgrade in Romania too. Let’s have a look at a few company offices in Romania.

As employees spend a great deal of time at their job, and work is increasingly demanding, the trend in the office market is to offer more unconventional work areas. The employees' preferences have also changed radically in recent years. As Millennials entered the labor market and given the shortage of specialists, employers had to adapt to their employees' needs to attract and retain them. Studies show that young people who started to work in recent years are not very loyal to their employers and are not planning to spend more than three years in the same job. Besides salary, extra-salary benefits and working conditions, when accepting a job, candidates also check out the offices they are going to work in. When taking a break, employees now want to spend that time relaxing with a video game, socializing with other colleagues, reading a book, riding a bike or even having a siesta on a sofa after lunch. That's why today's offices have relaxation rooms with interactive games, spaces for socialization, libraries and even their own sports halls. The new offices also have integrated green spaces or urban gardens, as international studies show plants and green areas improve productivity by 15%. According to real estate consultancy firm ESOP | Corfac International, more than half (56%) of the 700,000 sqm of new office space to be delivered in Bucharest until 2019 will be located in class A office buildings that will have inner gardens or green spaces on their roofs. Most of these office projects with urban gardens will be located in Bucharest’s center-west area, which will see over 180,000 sqm of green projects, such as AFI Tech Park, Campus 6, The Light, The Bridge and Business Garden Bucharest. Romania is a booming market for office space buildings, especially with its main cities Bucharest, Cluj, Timisoara and Iasi. In the capital city alone, more than 250,000 sqm of offices will be in use by the end of the year, with more than 25,000 employees working there. Developers and interior designers have designed the new offices according to the employees' preferences.