The firm announced that it will relocate to a smaller office in line with the new global office strategy
DWF has announced that it will be downsizing its workspace in Glasgow with a move to a smaller location this month following its implementation of a hybrid working model.
The firm said in a media release on Tuesday that the relocation was based on the results of a survey conducted with all its employees in the first quarter of 2021. “An overwhelming majority” expressed their desire to work from the office for just two to three days in the week, leading to the development of a new global office strategy.
“The pandemic has unsurprisingly led to more people working from home than ever before. During this time, the DWF executive and Glasgow partners discussed how our office requirements and working habits have changed and the ways in which this affects our clients' and our own future working needs,” said Paul Pignatielli, DWF Glasgow managing partner. “With our colleagues also indicating that they wanted to split their working week by spending between 2-3 days a week from an office, we decided to move to a hybrid-working model and relocate our office to The Sentinel.”
DWF Group plc COO Matthew Doughty said that the firm began evaluating its global property portfolio late last year.
“With the majority of our people currently working from home and given our expectations of an increase in agile working in the future, we took the opportunity to begin redesigning some of our offices, renegotiating leases and marketing some of our surplus property in certain markets, to ensure that our office space fits our future requirements,” Doughty said.
Pignatelli said that the Glasgow office’s relocation halves the square footage of the firm’s workspace, and will feature a design that “caters for a new way of working.”
“It is a genuinely exciting opportunity to move into a newer, fitter-for-purpose environment embracing some of the newer habits that have been formed over the last 12 months,” he said.
While the new office is fitted out, DWF Glasgow’s team will operate from a temporary office.
In March, DWF closed its doors in Melbourne, Sydney and Newcastle. The firm also pulled the plug on its offices in Brussels and Singapore last year.
