LOS ANGELES—A year after implementing Workplace360, CBRE announces that 90% of employeesprefer the environment to a traditional office space. Workplace360, for the unfamiliar, is an open floor plan and hoteling-styleoffice format that incorporates high technology and a paperlesswork environment. The design won CBRE a Digie Awardearlier this year. The program was launched last yearwhen CBRE moved into a new office space in Downtown Los Angeles.Now, CBRE has surveyed its employees to understand how they feelabout the space a year later.

“This survey really communicates how quickly our people haveadapted. The technology in place of the paper is one of themost recognizable pieces of evidence to indicate the acceptancelevel among our employees,” Lew Horne, CBRE's LosAngeles and Orange County president, tells GlobeSt.com. “In fact, atop executive from a large firm recently toured our space and wasin awe by the lack of paper and the changed culture of the space.It's interesting to see it through the eyes of those who have neverbeen here before.”

According to the survey, 90% of employees “would not go back tothe old way of working,” while 83% of employees feel moreproductive in the space and 94% claimed that the space has apositive impact on their business performance. It wasn't justindividual work performance that was affected, either. 87% ofemployees felt that the work environment helped them create newbusiness, while 93% of employees found it easier to collaboratewith others in this environment. The survey did fall short in somecategories, namely private space, where 86% of employees felt theyhad access to private space. Although this number doesn't seem low,Horne felt it showed room for improvement.