Bathroom products manufacturer Lixil has opened new global headquarters at Osaki Garden Tower in Tokyo.

Designed around the concept “a home away from home,” Lixil’s headquarters is located close to Osaki Station, Shinagawa Station and Haneda Airport, and is accessible from central Tokyo.

Measuring 5,500sqm, the open-plan office space focuses on four areas: productivity, wellbeing, flexibility, and engagement.

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It includes a variety of spaces, including hybrid-style meeting rooms for remote and in-person meetings, as well as spaces for small group discussions to mid-sized cross-functional team gatherings.

Although employees will continue to work from home, with only 8% of staff regularly commuting to work, the headquarters has been designed as a place to foster communication and collaboration.

Lixil promotes “Activity Based Working (ABW)”, which enables employees to select a suitable place and time for work, or the task at hand, and help them manage their work life balance.

Therefore, Lixil has reduced its head office seating capacity to 500, and has secured separate sites in Tokyo for employees who require fixed seats and tools to work, as well as an R&D and Design Centre.

President and CEO Kinya Seto commented: “At Lixil we have embraced new ways of work that meet the diverse needs and lifestyles of our employees.

“We continue to build an inclusive working environment that enables everyone to reach their full potential by giving them control of how they structure their day.

“Moving to the new Lixil headquarters is part of our workstyle transformation that will take us further on our journey to become an agile and entrepreneurial organisation – it will be a place where open communication and lively collaboration is welcomed, just like a home for everyone.”

Earlier this year, Lixil opened a distribution centre for its Grohe brand in Germany.