The way people work has changed more in the last five years than in the previous fifty. Remote work, hybrid schedules, and the collapse of the hard boundary between office and home have fundamentally altered what people need from the places they live. The home office is no longer a luxury addition. It is a primary space, one that needs to function as well as any professional environment, and feel as considered as every other room in the home.
At Optima, that shift wasn’t a surprise. The integration of work into residential communities has been part of the design philosophy since 2010, when Optima Camelview Village introduced the first on-site commercial business suites into a luxury residential community. The thinking behind that decision has only become more relevant with time.
Designed for Work, From the Inside Out
Every Optima floor plan is designed to accommodate a dedicated workspace. That separation matters, a defined work zone improves focus, reduces distraction, and makes it easier to close the day and return to the rest of life. Floor-to-ceiling glass fills every residence with natural light throughout the working day. And the views, the McDowell Mountains, the Chicago lakefront, the Old Town Scottsdale rooftops, are working conditions that most offices cannot replicate.
When You Need to Step Outside the Apartment
Across Optima communities, business centers, conference rooms, and private huddle rooms provide professional-grade settings for the calls that need a quiet room and the workdays when the apartment needs a rest. At Optima Signature, fully furnished commercial business suites, available to both residents and non-residents, take that offer further: private offices ranging from single-desk to multi-workstation, all with access to Optima Signature’s full amenity program.
At Optima Lakeview, the seven-story skylit atrium functions as the most restorative change of environment a building can provide, no commute, just light and greenery and the ambient life of the community. At Optima Sonoran Village, Kaleidoscope Juice provides the coffee-shop moment without leaving the building. At Optima Signature, Egg Harbor Cafe and on-site concierge handle the rest. The vertical landscaping visible from every Optima terrace, shown by research to reduce cortisol and improve focus, turns a work-from-home morning into something genuinely different from a conventional office day.
The Home You Work In
Optima communities have met the shift to remote and hybrid work not because work-from-home amenities were added in response to demand, but because the design philosophy, that a home should support the full complexity of the life lived inside it, was already pointing in the right direction. Not as a feature. As a foundation.
Come see the spaces that make working from home genuinely work. Explore Optima communities and experience the details that define each one.
