| It’s hard for a company to face the fact that its existing space has become a warehouse for people. But it’s not an uncommon situation: A company grows out of its existing space, but hasn’t yet come up with a plan to address the problem. The result is that its buildings, even if initially well designed, effectively become warehouses for people. Like most companies in that situation, Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (RGA), never thought of its headquarters as a warehouse for its people. But once it faced that fact, its leadership realized that the company would need a new headquarters to give it the right workplace, one that balanced the need for focus work and knowledge-sharing.
RGA is one of the largest global providers of life reinsurance, with approximately $2.9 trillion of life reinsurance in force and assets of more than $40 billion. The reinsurance calculations at the heart of its business are the equivalent of reading a mathematical word problem as long as the book “War and Peace.” That makes focus work very important to RGA. In fact, fifty percent of RGA employees require a high level of focus work and almost all … read more. Facilitiesnet © April 2015 |
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