A fintech unicorn and Australian home-grown talent no less, Tyro has quickly become a household name for any business in need of mobile banking. Its workforce comprises tech-savvy Millennials and digital nomads, averaging in age between 25 to 35, whose work-life values are beyond the comfort zone of common working models. The way they want to work, and the role that ‘choice’ plays in their working experience, radicalises the norms of any traditional working culture.
But in the fast-moving world of fintech, to operate beyond the bounds of convention is almost a basic requirement. And why not? Thinking beyond the limits of what’s possible is how unicorns are made, after all.
Tyro, outgrowing its previous 4500-square-metre premises, engaged GEYER VALMONT to completely rethink the workplace equation for its new six-floor office on Market Street in Sydney’s CBD. The initial briefing session clearly set out the challenge for Geyer. “A key word that Tyro mentioned was connectivity. People were working away from each other. They were all connected via media but not connected physically,” says GEYER VAMONT’s CEO, Marcel Zalloua. “Tyro wanted a space that would reconnect its people, that would encourage innovation, and embrace diversity and inclusion.”
The next key aspect was innovation. Staff were very productive, but were they innovating, improving and learning? And what would draw them back into the office after two years of being cosseted at home? GEYER VALMONT instantly saw the need to recreate the spaces that people had made for themselves in their home environments. “They might be comfortable and very effective, but how would we pick them up, move them back into the office and make them very comfortable in that situation?” poses Zalloua. This also called up the need for a neurodiverse solution that would answer the hyper- and hypo-sensitive working needs of a vast majority of people.
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