Supporting Agility with Office Furniture

The workplace changes of the last two years have been seismic. In the wake of the pandemic, businesses now recognise the need to embrace agile and hybrid working in order to best support their operations and employees.

Office furniture has an important role to play in making workplace agility possible – it helps to define different activity-based work settings and zones, supports the very essence of how work is done and creates more desirable and well-equipped environments for an increasingly discerning workforce.

It’s one of the reasons why Staverton’s office furniture design and manufacturing expertise was called on to support global sports, betting and entertainment provider Flutter Entertainment Plc.

Flutter’s reinvention of its new global headquarters in Dublin, designed and built by Claremont, provided a perfect opportunity for British office furniture manufacturer Staverton to showcase its expertise solving workspace challenges with innovative furniture design.

As well as providing Flutter with office furniture for their temporary home during the 18-month build of their new 136,000 sq. ft home, Staverton was also tasked with designing and manufacturing a number of large space-defining structures to support scrum-led activities.

The brief was to create agile and tech-compatible project dashboards to help Flutter’s numerous teams with collaboration and project meetings. The solution had to be flexible so it can be set up as required, provide greater definition of space and house AV capability discretely.

Building on Staverton’s existing wall-mounted meeting room solution WW – which incorporated TV mounting, acoustic panels, writable surfaces and space for AV equipment – the team set about designing a free-standing version. The product development process, which needed to include single and double-sided versions of the product, was fast-tracked over a few weeks.

Offering even greater flexibility than the brief initially required, Staverton’s Scrumwall also supports standing or sitting height tables, which can be connected at various points.

Paul Edward, Staverton’s Managing Director said: “We have become the principal furniture supplier to Flutter companies and have been helping the business transition to more agile ways of working over the last five years.”

“Flutter’s new Dublin home is the very embodiment of agility and is an incredibly dynamic and modern space. The new Scrumwall product not only shows that furniture increasingly needs to fulfil a variety of different uses, but also that creative and bespoke solutions can add real value, particularly in workspaces with a very distinct sense of place and brand.”

As a leading sit-stand desk manufacturer, and the first company in Europe to design and manufacture a mobile sit-stand workstation for the commercial market, Staverton really understands the importance of agility – both in terms of offering choice and flexibility, as well as encouraging employees to be less sedentary.

Paul added: “The double-sided version of Scrumwall provides even greater flexibility for Flutter – as while a team is collaborating on one side, people can participate in standing meetings or sit at tables on the other. The beauty of Scrumwall is that it can be configured to suit business users’ needs – a fact that will almost certainly guarantee its popularity and long-term use.”

“At Staverton we are more than just a workstation supplier or a manufacturer of workstations and tables – we relish the opportunity to solve workplace challenges and to show how we can design and manufacture office furniture to suit clients’ specific needs. This project demonstrates this ethos perfectly.”

Flutter’s new Dublin home spans six floors and features a rich blend of activity-based work settings and large collaborative spaces, as well as an indoor football pitch in the newly built atrium, studio spaces, a mock-up shop, a frictionless retail store, relaxation and gaming areas and an on-site café.

To find out more about Scrumwall or Staverton’s other British-made furniture solutions, visit our Content Lab page.