The new Acronis HQ will make you feel like ‘walking into blue space’

Also, check out photos of its 7-eleven-like pantry amenities.

Home-grown data protection company, Acronis, recently launched its international headquarters in Singapore with its interior said to be “rebelling against a usual VISUAL = SENSORY office environment”.

Acronis, set up in Singapore in 2002, has established itself as a fast-growing international company with more than 700 employees in 18 countries and partners in almost every country in the world.

The new Acronis office was made possible with the help of the Devo Design Team. According to a representative from Devo Design, most offices focus on branding walls or specific features to spruce up design intent and activity when sculpting the office space. But Acronis ‘rebelled in a holistic communal intent’ by using their corporate color – a deep blue, not dull but strong Pantone color – to another level. It applies an “overdosing” method which the representative describes as “ironically fun and introspective.”

“Our objective was to create an open plan office, that is effective in every spectrum crucial for ACRONIS’s requirements, which we had collaborated with the ACRONIS team right from day one. Everyone’s involved. Almost intoxicated in “blue” during design development, little did everyone realize it will be a revelation transient to a deeper level of happiness for an employee-centric workplace,” says the representative.

The Acronis team also describes that seeing from “ACRONIS Blue” glasses creates another genre of office experience for their daily activities. “The secondary stimulants were playing around with lighting and ‘intended’ activity based propos/furniture that bonds with the above idea.”

Devo Design team explains that when natural light fuses into the work area, the office is less glaring and calming on sleepy sticky afternoons - the deep tone colour encapsulates the wall/floor, providing a strong robust feeling for any human walking around the office, almost like a “walking into blue space” matrix movie forward. This, he says, allows for employees to keep energy levels consistent throughout the working day.

The new Acronis HQ boasts of “7eleven” amenities in the pantry, with more space allotted for beverages than for food staples since employees are required to hydrate more every 1-2 hours – a common activity but highly essential to keep employees healthy while on the move.

Acronis provides backup solutions for desktop, server, virtual and cloud environments as well as file sharing and sync solutions for mobile devices. Now returning to its roots, Acronis considers boosting its research and development activities in Singapore as part of the company’s global strategy.

Serguei Beloussov, CEO and founder of Acronis, explains that they chose to set up their international headquarters in Singapore because the city is a convenient location for international technology businesses. “Singapore is also well connected to the rest of the world; more than 50% of world’s population and economy is in the distance of 8-hours flight from here. Singapore serves as a business and technology hub in Asia, and this is important for us, as we believe that in 5 years more than 50% of Acronis revenue will come from Asia. It is also important that Singapore is a neutral country, and it is a good place for a truly global company.”
 

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