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LinkedIn

Challenge

When LinkedIn set out to build a new Omaha office, they aimed to rethink how the space looked, and how it worked, now and into the future. Gone were individual assigned desks and personal drawer spaces. To meet their future-oriented vision, we were tasked with developing adaptable furniture solutions that tied into the bold palette Gensler designed for this project.

Solution

To deliver on both look and function, we collaborated closely with the team at Gensler and designers from two, the project’s furniture dealer. We adapted our Belay workstations, customized our BYOT tables, and designed totally custom high-top tables and power-enabled lockers with shelving and integrated planters for flexible placement. Every piece was finished to coordinate with key architectural details, from paint and doors to millwork.

PRODUCTS FEATURED: SOMA, Belay, Olli, Bento, Crostini
professional photography: Jason O'Rear

Creating workstation and storage solutions for an adaptable future-focused office

Read more about how we developed fully custom lockers and leveraged our Standard Products to support LinkedIn’s needs for their new Omaha office.

**Calculate Workstation Requirements**

LinkedIn brought a highly analytical approach to the workspace requirements for this project. They provided a detailed summary of the exact ratio of different typologies required for each space, including dedicated individual desks, shared tables for hot-desking, and spaces meant for informal collaboration. We initiated our design work by exploring a mix of our standard Belay workstations with larger custom communal tables.

**Consider Storage**

A future-oriented project, there would be no assigned desks at LinkedIn Omaha. This meant we needed to design a range of storage solutions that could be either free-standing or strategically positioned at the end of a run of desks. We developed a modular locker system whose units also integrated shelving, planters, and additional informal meeting tables.

Integrate Power

Like workstations, lockers would also not be assigned. Employees needed to be able to use their standard employee key card to access any unused locker, enabling maximum ease and flexibility for both work and storage spaces across the office. To meet this requirement we designed each unit and locker to be individually powered with a connected digital lock system.

**Select Material Palette**

Gensler, the architectural firm for this project, had a clear vision for a colorful space that was nothing like the typical gray office designs throughout most of the Midwest. We supported this vision by developing a warm and bright color and finish palette that pulled from architectural elements of the project.

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Blend Typologies

LinkedIn’s office in Omaha was intended to be more dynamic than typical offices, with collaboration and storage spaces intermixed with standard workstations. Our final design for dedicated workspaces included a dynamic mix of totally custom pieces, furniture from our standard line that we adapted specifically for this project (our semi-custom offerings), as well as Standard Products.

Custom: Lockers, High-top power-enabled meeting tables with locker bases, Semi-circle power-enabled meeting tables

Semi-custom: Shared work table with custom laminate finish to match the color palette

Standard Products: Belay height-adjustable workstations, Crostini privacy screens, Olli power and data beams, Bento power and cable management tool for any work surface

Furnish Transitional Spaces

In addition to outfitting dedicated work spaces, we also developed custom power-enabled high-top collaboration tables for LinkedIn’s railcar zones; long hallways furnished with shared teamwork and lounging areas.

Plant Biophilia

While developing the furniture pieces for LinkedIn, plants were not an afterthought. In one of our custom locker designs used throughout the project, we included a built-in planter, and since the lockers were distributed throughout each workspace, this meant greenery was too!

**Install**

Olli, our highly adaptable standard power and data beam, was utilized across all the work spaces to neatly bring power and data to individual workstations, shared collaboration tables, and lockers positioned at the ends of runs of desks.

Work

Using a total of eight Pair products in a combination of custom, semi-custom, and Standard, we delivered office furniture that met the functional, adaptable future-focused needs of LinkedIn while also tying into Gensler’s bold design vision.

Go behind the scenes with our team to read even more about our design and prototyping process, specifically how we came up with a millwork and metal mix for an easy-to-customize storage and more solution.

See our engineers and designers at work.