Framery says its headquarters in Tampere, Finland, is attracting employees back to the office without any attendance mandate, with demand now high enough to create parking shortages.
“We don’t tell people when to come in, but the data shows they’re choosing the office anyway,” said CEO Samu Hällfors.
The company points to new workplace research showing its office scores well above global benchmarks. An independent assessment by Leesman found Framery’s headquarters achieved a workplace experience score of 82.5, compared with a global average of 69.5.
Office outperforms global benchmarks
Leesman’s data also shows the average home working experience scores higher than most offices globally, at 79.5.
“The average home, designed for living, supports the average knowledge worker better than the average office, built for working,” said Peggie Rothe, chief insights and research officer at Leesman.
Framery says its approach focuses on reducing friction in the workplace by making spaces easy to access and suited to different tasks.
“We’ve learned that making the office worth the commute is really about removing friction,” said Hällfors.
“When you give people the right tools, the office becomes somewhere they want to be, not somewhere they have to be. Now we just need to sort out the parking.”
Workplace features linked to higher satisfaction
The company reports higher satisfaction levels across several workplace measures, including noise control, meeting spaces and productivity.
- Noise control: 96% of staff satisfied with access to soundproof pods, compared with 66% of office workers globally who struggle with noise
- Meeting spaces: 99% satisfaction for planned meetings and 97% for room booking systems
- Creative work: 89% say the office supports creative thinking; 97% feel comfortable having private conversations
- Video calls: 99% say the office supports video calls effectively, compared with a global average of 75%
- Productivity: 90% say the office enables productivity, compared with a global benchmark of 67%
Framery says it uses its headquarters as a testing site for its own products, including soundproof pods and office booking systems, before releasing them to customers.
Research based on global workplace data
Leesman conducts workplace experience assessments by collecting employee feedback on how well work environments support their tasks. The results are compared against a global database of more than 1.5 million responses across more than 10,000 workplaces.
