Future of Work Program

Commonwealth of Massachusetts/DCAMM, Boston and Chelsea, MA

Jones was hired as one of five architects in late 2019 to develop a "future of work" program for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This program was to look at the 2030 horizon, and plan for what the workplace would be for state agencies. With the pandemic emerging in early 2020, this program went on hold. As we restarted in late summer/fall 2020, the target had shifted to a 2022 horizon.

For the preceding six months, all state agencies had been working remotely. This was an opportunity to accelerate the future of work program and reconsider how people work and how the Commonwealth delivers services to the residents of Massachusetts. The challenge from the Governor's office to our team was to re-think the workplace, and reduce in-person day-to-day occupancy to 50% by advancing remote and hybrid workplace strategies. This presents an opportunity to divest of leaseholds on expensive space in downtown Boston, consolidate footprints of program in owned properties, provide more flexible solutions for employees, and potentially provide better service.

Since that time, our design team has been working with the Department of Revenue (DOR) and Department of Labor, Workforce, and Development (LWD) to evaluate the needs of over 3,000 employees, spread across five properties in Boston and Chelsea. These programming, planning, and feasibility studies range from relocating employees to existing desks, to furniture replacement, to small scale renovations, and full-gut renovations.

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2,500-400,000 GSF