Introduction.
Breather (now acquired by Industrious) is a flexible office and workspace space provider. With a state of the art app, Breather allows users to easily find and book a space by the hour. Each Breather space is secured with a keypad, accessible with a unique access code available only to you and your guests.
Prior to Covid, flexible office space was high in demand. The original workspace model Breather provided were small private rooms, with a comfy lounge and a shared work table best suited for small team meetings, freelancers, and therapists. As our client base grew so did our requests for bigger spaces with desks, while still maintaining the Breather style.
So we worked on something pretty incredible. In 2018 we announced the official launch of Breather offices, which you could rent for a month or more at a time, with no long-term commitment and access to your space within just 48 hours of inquiry. We redesigned our spaces to have the same, premium Breather look and feel, designed for the productivity needs of longer term occupants.
This project took 6 months from attained lease, to construction, to completion. Our first client moved in 2 days later and stayed at 900 Broadway for 2 years.
Role Tools Timeline
Product Manager Airtable 4/15/18- 10/03/18
Interior Project Manager Autocad
Art Director Adobe Photoshop
Slack
Ideating.
Research.
“[Prior to covid], two percent of office space in New York is delivered in this flexible way: space-as-a-service. Within five years, we expect to see 30 percent of urban office space used this way, scaling up or down to meet the needs of a physical team the same way cloud infrastructure is now used. We are quickly marching toward a world where fixed, static office spaces, whether traditional or co-working, are viewed with the same irreverent nostalgia as in-house data servers.
This evolution is largely driven by future of work trends. Increasingly, companies are finding they no longer need a single office, in one location, with a single desk per employee. The rise of AI and automation software means humans increasingly focus on tasks only they can do: thinking creatively and interacting with other humans. These tasks are not performed by sitting at a desk for 9 hours a day, but rather in a variety of activity-based spaces that are designed to maximize different types of productivity: focused work, formal discussions, brainstorming sessions, relaxation, informal conversations, etc. Our clients are increasingly looking for solutions that allow their teams to make the most of their talents across a variety of spaces and locations and aren’t constricted by leases or co-working quirks.”
https://blog.breather.com/welcome-infinite-workspace/
Final Product.
