Our Vision for Making Spaces Better.
Bureau at a glance:
Bureau aims to make working better and unlock the productivity of people by giving peoplethem functional and flexible spaces to work.
We are challenging the status-quo of ineffective open plan offices that are slow and expensive to plan and build, inflexible to changing business requirements, and reduce collaboration and deep work.
We fix this with a combination of modular products, a sophisticated operations system, and automated planning and assessment technology to optimize current and future spaces.
This combination of proprietary technology, industrial design expertise, and deep operational capability is unique in the market and provides customers with a one stop shop for the backbone of the office.
Old Way
Traditional office fit-out - long, costly, rigid
New Way
Elastic Spaces - fast, collaborative and reusable
We're on a Mission to be the Global Leader in Modular Space Solutions
Workspaces can be hard work. Ever since open-plan became pretty much the only-plan, workplace design and culture have often focused on surface-level trends. Ping-pong tables and beer taps are well and good, but we’re more interested in what truly inspires focused, meaningful and lasting work.
Utilizing technology, we design spaces that flex and modulate to the ever-changing, often abstract, but always fascinating needs and behaviors of its people, enabling businesses with the tools they need to design and inspire workspaces that work.
Empower your workspace with Bureau.
The Bureau Mission
A tech integrated suite of products to create spaces optimized for productive people and with proprietary data to prove it. We say that we don’t put people in space but we create spaces for the people and companies that do. Bureau uniquely integrates product, operational capability and tech.
Product:
Modular construction components for 80% of office
Integrated IOT tech for proprietary data to optimize current and future spaces
In-house industrial design team with the most certified products on the market
Operations:
Class-leading design and manufacturing to ensure scale delivery and quality globally
World-leading marketing & e-comm team to win online
Exceptional sales team, systems, structure and go to market to win
Technology:
AI-driven space planning
Assessment dashboard to optimize productivity
Financial sophistication to simplify purchasing
In a legacy, high growth, and large market:
- For over 40 years, office design has prioritized reducing costs and space, with open-plan layouts cutting space by ~70% and costs by ~30% - at the expense of productivity and collaboration
- While the market size is continually increasing, processes have largely remained the same; highly fragmented, long lead times, and despite the open office design still costly
- Additionally, hybrid work and the return to the office have shone a spotlight on the deficiencies of the current office as workers prefer to work from home
- Accelerating competition and the war for talent will demand great spaces for companies that want to be competitive
The Problem: We’re solving a massive, painful problem.
Construction hasn’t changed in hundreds of years. It’s slow, expensive, fixed in place and wasteful. Workplace designs are based on limited real data and focussed on $/sqft, not ROI.
- The cost of distractions in the US: $400bn
- Reduction of collaboration caused by open plan: 30%
- Lack of data informing workspace effectiveness
- 30% of employees are troubled by their office environment
- Only the most innovative companies with large budgets can champion productivity-enhancing workspaces
- Only select and overworked specialists are able to combine service, product and technology to create these spaces
Introducing the elastic workplace: adapting spaces for a fluid future.
Imagine a workspace that changes as fast as your business does.
Enter the era of the Elastic Workplace, a new paradigm in office design that embraces flexibility, scalability, and real-time adaptability. With hybrid work now the norm, companies are rethinking their static office setups, trading rigid layouts for environments that stretch, shrink, and morph according to the needs of their teams. Elastic Workplaces are designed to move at the speed of business. As your team scales and your priorities shift, our flexible, dynamic environments evolve with you - ensuring that your space adapts as quickly as your business needs.
Creating a workspace is hard
The office fit out industry has become complacent with a traditional legacy customer experience. Here's why this sucks....
...for Business Owners
Build times of 40+ weeks, not keeping pace with your business
Fixed construction can't flex to your changing needs
Fit-out costs are Capex and create future defit costs
Requires managing a large number of stakeholders, is expensive and take the focus off your business
...for Architects
Designers are severely constrained resulting in limited capacity for creativity
Fixed construction gives limited scope for change or optimisation once lived in
Limited real, current data on what actually impacts productivity
...for Commercial Property
Traditional build's don't allow spaces to change based on tenant requirements
Tenants don't want to wait: Landlords don't want to Fit-out without tenants creating thousands of square meters of 'trapped' space
Lack of data to design great spaces - increasing tenant churn, lowering WALLE and reduction rental rates
...for the Environment
Construction is one of the largest contributors to carbon emissions
Most construction is not reusable or able to flex for different use cases
The modular components that do exist are often poor quality and ugly or exceptionally expensive
Our Solution
Instead, imagine the office of the future. Designed for deep work and collaboration. Deployed rapidly. Easily reconfigurable. Real time data feedback on the biggest impact levers on productivity and constantly optimised with AI. This can be achieved through our three core pillars:
Products
Creates deep work and intentional collaboration zones
Cost-effective standardised building blocks
Easily reconfigured
Easily assembled
Services
Creates a streamlined end to end service
Massively reduces time frame
No handovers
Consistent ongoing support post install
Tech
Real time data tracking for office optimization
Informs future fit outs
Ease of planning
Creates engaging sales funnel
We are trusted by the world's leading businesses
- 2.5k+ installs completed across 6 key regions
- Global network of logistics and warehousing
- Network of corporate trained 3rd party installers and in-house Bureau project managers
