New Ways of Working layouts emerged in the following decade out of the learnings of Flexdesk (approach that started around the nineties).

The Solvay Way of Working (SWoW) standards were built upon it and fine tuned with internal pilots, market insights and learnings from 2020 remote working.

Flexdesk shows some limitations (no diversified working areas, …) but might be the right answer in specific situations (according to nature of activities, size or technical constraints, transition period).  

Interested in better understanding the difference, please check this section (link)

1. Offering experiences that matter to our People

SWoW as motor

to align People’s daily EXPERIENCES with Solvay ONE ambitions

• Engaging interactions, fair treatment, comfortable and flexible working environment, digital solutions, …
• When experience doesn’t match company messages, belief & engagement drop

SWoW program enables holistic experience:

4B ecosystem (bricks, bytes, behaviors & branding)

2. To unleash Group’s potential

Towards a collaborative,

flexible, competency based organization

to respond quicker to market opportunities

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CONNECT PEOPLE

Cross-team collaboration and broaden network 

Exposure (managers & employees)

Welcoming and inclusive working environment

SUPPORT EFFICIENCY

Digital tools & solutions adapted to needs 

Activity based and comfortable working environment

Speed of decision making through eased exchanges

RESPONSIBILIZATION

Performance drive (target oriented instead of process/org chart mindset)

Free to self-organize, in good connection with team dynamic

Continuous learning, stretch of comfort zone

NWoW being adopted by all main consultancy / strategy firms 

& by top performing tech/industrial companies

to keep competitive advantage

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To address ageing office environments :

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