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Healthcare Payment Specialists

Fort Worth, TX - We removed the walls between departments to reconnect them with a central gathering space

 

Like many growing companies, Healthcare Payment Specialists has expanded over the years into adjacent leasable space in the same building.  Eventually they occupied several suites in the building they occupied, but these suites remained separated from each other with walls.  It was soon apparent that this separation of departments did not create a working environment conducive to collaboration and it was affecting employee moral.

After studying how the company functioned we devised a plan that removed walls between separate suites and relocated central shared spaces, such as copy, file and supply rooms.  A shared kitchen that was part of one of the suites became more easily accessible to all employees.  The resulting large central gathering space serves as a lunch room for daily use, and for occasional all-office meetings and presentations.  To differentiate this space from the surrounding working spaces, the ceiling was raised and a perimeter soffit was added which incorporates cove lighting to illuminate the ceiling.