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How CHG Healthcare Made Three Data-Driven Design Changes to Optimize Space Utilization and Employee Satisfaction

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    INDUSTRY:

    Healthcare Staffing

  • A purple gear and calendar icon representing multi-phase design iteration.
    IMPLEMENTATION:

    Multi-phase Design Iteration

  • A purple icon depicting multiple people representing company size.
    COMPANY SIZE:

    3,000+ Employees

  • A purple floor plan icon representing workplace design.
    USE CASE:

    Workplace Design

  • A purple icon with a checkmark representing key data results.
    KEY RESULT:

    3 Design Changes Driven by Data


The Challenge

CHG Healthcare, the nation’s largest physician staffing company,
was navigating a post-pandemic hybrid work environment with
flexible attendance policies set by individual divisions. They
partnered with Steelcase to develop new workspace designs
featuring open, flexible collaboration spaces for their sales teams, but needed to validate whether these designs were meeting
employee needs.

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The Solution

VergeSense revealed that while workstations saw the most
traffic, alternative collaboration spaces were underutilized. Sales
teams preferred to collaborate at their desks with large monitors and
double screens rather than in conference rooms. The team made three
rounds of data-driven changes.

First, they removed temporary desks and pods, replacing them
with traditional desks for immediate needs. Second, they used VergeSense
heatmaps to identify furniture that wasn’t working and rebalanced
density between the North and South sides. Third, they built out a
new executive area and continued measuring its effectiveness.

The Results

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3

Design Changes Driven by Data

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Higher

Utilization After Optimization

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Multi-phase

Continuous Iteration

Optimized floor plans led to significantly higher utilization rates,
with workstations aligned to actual work patterns and
collaboration spaces right-sized for real team behavior. CHG
Healthcare established VergeSense as their continuous feedback
loop for workplace design, using data to plan every future change
with confidence.

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