Accommodating expanding company personnel after office building space limit has been reached

Abstract

For this project, the problem of needing to further hire employees after a company has reached its maximum employee limit was considered to be solved. Several options were put to use in an effort to stave off exceeding the limit thus risking business stagnation and losing projects to competitors. The objectives were met by a combination of sending employees to work from home, reorganizing the office layout, and reusing the cafeteria to make space for more desks. All these measures were taken at the expense of employee productivity/morale to various degrees, and as such, to ensure that the effect is not too drastic, an employee satisfaction survey was developed to be recurrently deployed between each process step. Other options considered, but not employed, included adding trailer space for rent and ultimately moving to a new building, the latter of which is still recommended if the hiring tendency is maintained. Key Terms ⎯ Employee limit, Office layout, Building capacity, Work-from-home.