Workplace Design & Strategy for Professional Services Firms

Balancing Collaboration,
Focus, and Flexibility.

Formcraft helps professional services firms create flexible, focused workplaces through strategy-led design-build delivery that supports people, process, and performance.

We partner with professional services firms to design and deliver high-performance workspaces that balance collaboration, concentration, and agility. Whether your teams are technical, operational, or creative, our integrated strategy, design, and build approach delivers tailored environments that enhance experience, optimize resources, and evolve with the way your people work.

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Understanding Today’s
Professional Services Workplace

Understanding Today’s
Professional Services Workplace

Professional services firms are redefining how space works. With hybrid work policies becoming the norm and spatial needs changing across functions, companies are seeking spaces that flex with both task and team. Many are leading the charge on strategic workplace change - testing new layouts, adjusting policies, and responding to the varying needs of technical, operational, and creative professionals.

Workplace standards vary, but one thing remains consistent: teams want environments that support both collaboration and concentration. From scaled-down workstations to high-use meeting zones, strategy helps firms navigate what to adjust, what to preserve, and where to invest.

Professional Services
Priorities

01
Collaboration
at scale

02
Agile seating and
hybrid support

03
Access to VC
and tech tools

A Strategy-First Approach

Designed for Professional Services

While many professional services firms are reducing individual workspace sizes, there’s a growing demand for flexible, scalable environments: spaces that support focused work, high-volume collaboration, and an engaging in-person experience. With varied team functions and evolving policies, strategy is essential to deciding what to scale back, what to enhance, and how to align space with real usage.

Curious how workplace strategy could help your teams work better, together? Let’s explore how Formcraft can guide your planning through insight-led engagement and function-specific design.

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Key Challenges Facing
Professional Service
Providers

Formcraft understands the specific pressures professional service providers face when planning or redesigning their space.

From shifting team needs to cross-functional input and evolving space policies, professional services workplace projects require clarity, precision, and pace. Our unified design-build model addresses the most common challenges firms face:

• Long lead times and material delays
• Need for cost and schedule certainty
• Cross-site brand consistency
• Unclear communication between architecture, design, and build
• Varying space requirements across departments
• Lean internal project teams managing complex decisions

Formcraft’s integrated design-build model brings strategy, design, and construction under one roof. This reduces friction, increases speed, and improves consistency across multiple sites. It also minimizes the burden on your internal team.

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25% faster

Project completion over our conventional peers

4 x greater

Estimating accuracy

50% less

Project management burden on your team

Designing for Focused Work
and Creative Collaboration

Designing for Focused Work
and Creative Collaboration

Professional services firms depend on both heads-down work and high-performance teamwork. Our designs reflect that dual need. Much of our work in your sector has addressed commonly-held preferences by professional services organizations like yours:

• 6x8 workstations (larger than commercial average)
• Reduced storage and private offices
• Increased informal and formal collaboration spaces
• Layout tables and open zones for drawing reviews

Explore our project portfolio to see how we’ve brought design priorities to life for leading professional service providers across the US.

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Hybrid Models and Strategic Flexibility

Few sectors have embraced flexibility like professional services. From agile seating to cloud infrastructure and adaptable policies, these firms are shaping modern workplace strategy in real time.

That said, hybrid working models can introduce challenges: unclear attendance expectations, space underutilization, and friction between functional needs. Our workplace strategy engagement helps your organization:

• Define seating ratios and shared desk plans
• Map actual usage patterns across departments
• Adjust layouts to suit technical and creative functions
• Align leadership expectations with real-world behavior

Book a Leadership Workshop to explore a strategy tailored to your people, process, and pace of change.

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Meeting and Support
Spaces That Add
Real Value

Professional services firms often operate with tight tech budgets and long lists of spatial wants. We help prioritize what matters - from VC-ready huddle rooms to creative studio zones and high-quality community areas. Our design solutions focus on:

• Noise management in open areas
• Multi-use collaboration rooms
• Smart amenities that enhance experience
• Space for receiving, producing, and shipping project work

We understand that most firms are open to compromise - but only where it counts. Our job is to ensure the solution works for your people, your clients, and your bottom line. Looking to get more from every square foot? Let’s talk about what’s possible.

Professional Services Strategy Inputs

Why Professional Service Providers Choose Formcraft

“The new space provides a balance between collaboration and concentration- both of which are really important to the work that we do at ASTM.” - Director of IT Product Services, ASTM

Ready to discover what a design-build partnership could look like for your firm? Book a Discovery Call with us today.

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Professional Services Workplace Design

FAQs

For most professional services firms, workplace projects run between 4 and 8 months, depending on complexity, scope, and decision-making speed. Factors like department-specific requirements and multi-team input can extend planning timelines. Our strategy-first, design-build approach helps accelerate progress by aligning stakeholders early and reducing delays caused by miscommunication or design changes. We also plan around material lead times and real-world usage patterns - keeping your project on track while delivering a space tailored to how your teams actually work.
Professional services firms often house a mix of technical, creative, and operational teams - all with different space requirements. Workplace strategy brings structure to this complexity. Through stakeholder workshops, usage analysis, and future scenario planning, we help define what each group needs to succeed. The result is a space plan that balances shared zones with team-specific functionality, ensuring that engineers, consultants, and project managers alike have the right tools, layouts, and conditions to perform - without wasted space or overinvestment.
In traditional models, disconnects between design and construction teams often lead to delays, change orders, and frustration. Formcraft solves that by uniting workplace strategy, design, and build under one roof. For professional services firms managing fast-moving projects or cross-departmental space needs, our model simplifies communication, improves speed, and ensures what’s planned is actually delivered. You’ll benefit from faster timelines, 4x estimating accuracy, and 50% less internal project oversight, while still retaining full visibility and control.
Professional services firms are often early adopters of hybrid models - but that flexibility can lead to underused space, unclear expectations, and frustration among teams. Our strategy process helps you assess real attendance patterns, define agile seating plans, and adjust layouts based on actual usage, not assumptions. We also ensure your space supports video conferencing, creative collaboration, and quiet focus zones. Fundamentally, it’s about making every square foot perform better across varied workstyles.
We understand that professional services teams often operate with ambitious goals but limited budgets or timelines. Whether you’re envisioning studio-style collaboration areas, quiet zones, or high-end client spaces, we help clarify what matters most. Our planning process includes functional mapping, stakeholder alignment, and smart trade-off analysis to focus your resources where they’ll have the greatest impact. It’s how we turn long wish lists into targeted, high-performing spaces without compromising on experience or outcomes.

If that sounds useful, let’s set up a time to talk.

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