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Plus Company Campus & Cossette Offices
Montreal, Canada
ollowing a temporary lease at provide a superior level of functionality
WeWork during the pandemic, to enhance the creative flow of the teams.
Fleading Canadian ad agency To deliver on this promise, one of the
Cossette and its parent corporation prerequisites became to provide each
Plus Company formulated an ambitious team with a workplace customised to
agenda for change: to reunite its Montreal its business model, working habits, and
workforce in a single downtown campus creative practices: some preferred open
and attract remote workers back to spaces, other required more closed
the office. The opportunity arose when rooms, and some sought more hybrid
Shopify vacated one of its floors at 525 configurations. To propel the wider
Viger Ouest, near Old Montreal. Cossette Plus Company ecosystem and promote
invited LAAB architecture to reboot synergies between business units,
its workplace to go beyond hip design the previously siloed workplace pods
features and the ubiquitous foosball. were opened along the exterior wall to
The keenest insight came from their promote informal travel between the
shared focus on UX design. Their common teams, and to provide greater access to
goal became to model the new workplace views and light. Another driver was to
around the staff experience and the shared propose a wide selection of meeting room
culture, rather than strictly from upper configurations, from two to twenty seats,
management’s perspective. The new layout in a dizzying array of configurations
flowed naturally from this stance. for quiet conversations, focused work,
The result is a workplace environment brainstorming sessions, and collaborative
crafted around the agency’s work culture work.
and ethos. As such, the spaces were then Beyond profiling the business model in
organised around the requisites of their the layout, the team also wanted to create
creative vocation, and the thrust was to a work environment that would avoid a
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