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Our previous office was impressive, but it was also big. Unnecessarily big. It was great for getting your steps in, but in the age of hybrid working, that sometimes meant on a busy day the office could still feel strangely empty. People were there, but spread across a building designed for a different way of working.

Our new home is a converted barn with roughly the same useful working space, just arranged much more sensibly. And that is just brilliant, because We’re closer together. Conversations happen more naturally. Someone can throw an idea across the room. A discussion can start over coffee and turn into something useful.

And it's reminded me what an office is actually for.

Remote working has changed business for the better in plenty of ways. Teams and Zoom make quick meetings easier. People can work effectively without losing hours travelling. Clients can get an update without everyone having to be in the same room.

We wouldn’t want to give any of that up.

But convenience comes with a trade-off.

A lot of business now happens through screens. Increasingly, a lot of the things we read, watch and interact with are being generated by AI too. It is becoming remarkably easy to go through an entire working day without having a proper conversation with another person.

That makes the human stuff even more important.

Sitting around a table. Reading the room. Spotting the reaction that somebody didn’t put into words. Challenging an idea. Drawing something badly on a whiteboard (we have nice fancy digital ones now). Having the conversation after the meeting that turns out to be more useful than the meeting itself.

It’s why we still like visiting clients. It’s why we run discovery workshops face to face whenever it makes sense. And it’s why our new office feels right for where morphsites is now.

Technology should make it easier for people to work together. It shouldn’t remove the need for them to do it.

So yes, we’ve moved offices.

But perhaps more importantly, the move has reminded us how much we value getting people in a room together.

If it’s been a while since we’ve seen you, come and visit. There’s good coffee, an excellent café in the building opposite, some rather nice Somerset countryside and, more importantly, plenty we can talk about.

We’d love to hear what’s next for your business.

Our new address is in the footer if you need it.