Tour Laserfiche's Long Beach Headquarters Designed By Studio One Eleven

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Laserfiche is a leading global provider of business process and information management software, with its headquarters based in Long Beach, California. Studio One Eleven will be designing their new creative-office campus as part of the renaissance of the creative-office corridor in the Bixby Knolls neighborhood of Long Beach. The new headquarters will accommodate the company’s rapid growth, with employees projected to double from 300 to 600 by the year 2025. The office design will be inspired by the likes of mid-century architect Edward Killingsworth, who was also based in Long Beach.

On Long Beach Boulevard near the San Diego Freeway, the Mid-Century-Modern-inspired landmark will be visible to over a half a million motorists daily. It will be Laserfiche’s fourth structure in the area, solidifying a growing campus. It also converts an underutilized site originally designed for oil extraction into a more sustainable use.

Some key design elements as determined through a thorough programming exercise between the design team and Laserfiche’s staff:

The c-suite was heavily involved in planning but at the same time, there was a significant outreach to the entire company. It’s fair to say that the building is a reflection of the entire company’s values and culture.

Studio One Eleven worked closely with a representative from every department within the company to provide input on the design. The company has an extensive number of clubs, i.e. chess, running, biking, yoga. They made sure that the building would successfully accommodate the needs of each club.

In order to accommodate all Laserfiche employees located globally, annually at the HQ, Studio One Eleven designed the commissary with multiple garage doors to enlarge the space by utilizing the outdoors, essentially creating a flexible environment. The project has a significant amount of outdoor open space including decks on every floor, an outdoor commissary, as well as a paseo between the garage and the ground floor that can accomodate food trucks and musicians for special events. All of these places contribute to a rich and varied work environment.

The Laserfiche office features indoor and outdoor spaces at the ground level and on every floor. Indoor there are MOB spaces that facilitate collaborative brainstorming activities. Two of these meeting spaces have dramatic double height spaces. One located at the entry provides for a two story “outdoor porch” and lobby with a tranquility pond with koi. The second location is at the “Skylab” positioned on the top floor with views of downtown Long Beach, the Pacific Ocean and Palos Verdes Penninsula. The Skylab is a flexible ideation space for employee teams and serves as a beacon to the 500,000 motorists traveling on the 405 Frwy daily.

Amenities spaces include a catered kitchen where employees get free daily lunches, which spills out into an outdoor courtyard. Privacy nooks for focused work, and communal kitchen are on every floor which encourages chance encounters and the option to work at benches and stools, offering a variety of ways to work.

According to Chris Wacker, Laserfiche CEO at their recent ribbon cutting ceremony, “We have abandoned the traditional vertical office building paradigm, emblematic of individual aspiration, for a horizontal environment where connections are fostered and relationships built and we’ve implemented ideas from our products into the design of the building we know that process automation makes life easier. It removes the bottlenecks and impediments to fluid operations, promotes efficiency and allows organization to thrive. This building’s open design does the same thing. It enhances the free-flowing information making our lives simpler and more creative.”

“This building is the future of work. People sharing spaces in the ways most productive for them. As we learned over the past two years, that makes the most productive for the company and the people that use our products. Just as Laserfiche is dedicated to helping people turn their data into digital assets, this building helps Laserfiche maximize the potential of its people. Laserfiche digital transformation increases your people power by eliminating the unproductive and focusing on the creative, and that’s what this building does. It’s a hybrid workspace for a hybrid workforce.”