Volvo Cars / Rethink Office / ABW

2. volvo cars
Our future workplace
Maria Forssell, Global Programme Manager

3. volvo cars at a glance
2 300
Retailers in 100 countries (2014)
232 284
Cars sold Jan-June 2015
26 080
Employees (2014)

4. OUR WORLD
• Americas
• USA
• Rockleigh: Americas headquarters
Camarillo: Design centre
Charleston: Manufacturing plant (to be opened in 2018)
Asia Pacific
China
Daqing: Manufacturing plant
Zhangjiakou: Engine manufacturing plant
Shanghai: Asia Pacific headquarters,
engineering centre, design centre
Chengdu: Manufacturing plant
Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur: Assembly plant
EMEA
Sweden
Gothenburg: Head office, product development,
design centre, marketing, administration,
manufacturing plant
Skövde, Floby and Olofström:
Component manufacturing
Denmark
Copenhagen: R&D Centre
Belgium
Ghent: manufacturing plant

5. Top three models Jan-June 2015
V40
V60 Cross-CountryV70 S60
S80
V40 Cross-Country
V60 S60 Cross-Country
XC60
All-new XC90
XC70
Our cars - sales
2) 39,639
3) 31,769
1) 78,066

8. Is it a Place?
The definition of work
Or, Activities we actually do?
With today’s technology there’s no need to be
locked to a desk - we’re free to work where we want!

9. We do so many things today

10. Re-think
• How I work?
• Where I work?
• When I work?
• How we collaborate?
Instead of just one type of work setting, you will get a variety of places to choose from.
See the office like an intelligent tool that’s support ALL your activities.
So you can choose something that’s suits you and not vice versa.

11. WHY?

12. Everything we do starts with people.
We understand people.
We protect what’s important to them and want to make them feel special.
We take pride in our role within society and recognise our commitment towards the environment.
We innovate to make people’s lives better and less complicated.
Our human-centric focus is what makes us different from all other car companies.
And, it is at the heart of everything we create.
This is why Volvo Cars are Designed Around You.
Designed Around You

13. ”Cars are driven by people. The guiding principle
behind everything we make at Volvo, therefore is –
and must remain – safety.”
Assar Gabrielsson & Gustaf Larson,
the founders of Volvo.
Human centric – Since 1927

14. The Employer Of Choice
• Passion for customers and cars
• Move fast, aim high
• Real challenge and respect

15. We need to challenge ourselves!
• Stay on top as a company
• Be an attractive workplace in
the future
• Make real change happen
Why we introduce Designed around you@work

16. Getting started

17. Designed around
you@work

18. Prestudy report

19. Better use of office space
Although we collaborate half of the time
we spend at work,
80% of the space in today’s offices is
dedicated to individual work.
An activity-based design respects our
modern ways of working.
It has generally assigned 50%of the
office space to different forms of
collaboration.

20. Activity pattern Volvo cars 2015

21. Management involvement

22. • One step to be an attractive workplace
in the future
• Strong conviction that it will work
• Convincing business case
• Good preparation with both research
and benchmark
• Resentment with status quo
Clear and common objective and guiding principles
Common and clear objectives
and the same guiding
principles for all work
streams

23. • Everybody has free access to all places, with no exceptions
• You can leave your things for 15 minutes in the rooms
• You can leave your belongings on the desk
you’re using for one hour, and make sure
to empty the workstation by the end of the day
• Belongings that are left behind will be taken
care of
A few simple rules

24. The process for implementation – per site
2–3 months 3–4 months 2 months
Clear vision on
ambition/goals
Identify functional
needs
Awareness and
commitment
Outlines for the
areas People,
Place and
Technology
Develop
zonal plan
and
functional
layout
Implement IT
solutions and
paper
independency
program
Adopt way of
working and
change
program
Final design
planning
and
ordering
Lead time
furniture
and tools
Roll-out IT program
Preparation/re
novation of
surfaces
Go live Review &
learn
7–9 months
Roll-out change program

25. 2015
The look

26. Individual working area

27. socializing area

28. Collaboration area

29. Living room

30. LIBRARY

31. getting results

32. Overall score 2012 vs. 2015
100
80
60
40
20
0
All 2012
50.3
All 2015
53.2
IT 2012
40,6
IT 2015
60,4
PVP 2013
68,2
PVP 2015
62,7
PVP 2012
50,5

33. Leesman index benchmark 2015

34. Leesman index benchmark 2015 cont

35. Continued roll out
2014
Group IT
Gbg
2015
HQ USA
China
HQ Staffs
Gbg
2015 37
2013
Pilot PVP
R&D
Gbg Prod strategy
Gbg
Design
Gbg
R&D
Gbg cont
2012
Pre-study
Finance
Gbg
New Plant
S Carolina,
USA
Plant pilots
Gbg,
Olofström

36. Getting where we want