News • 06/2018

SOCOTEC: new spaces, new prospects

Nearly 700 employees moving to two sites...The SOCOTEC Group is on the move! Acte Sept was there to help the teams take ownership of their new workspaces.

These two moves have a significant symbolic impact: all the central teams were brought together in a new headquarters in Saint-Quentin en Yvelines and part of the Paris and Île de France teams were brought together at La Défense. For many, this is also about finding out about working in shared spaces.

Before the move, we prepared the employee representatives on the project for their communication with the teams: the managers of the teams involved on the one hand, and on the other hand, emissaries and employee volunteers to inform their colleagues and report to us their questions.

For break between packing boxes, employees incrementally experienced the "Moving In, Instructions for Use" web series, or how to remove one’s final concerns with a smile. In it, our team of actors, in an offbeat way, depicts the move and the new ways of working.

A few weeks after moving in, managers and employees were invited to take part in workshops. The opportunity to exchange initial feedback and to reflect on the keys to working well and communicating in an open space.