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important to consider in arranging the space, so employees experience convenience at their personal working place and generally in the office. training seminars and presentation of new products. This educational area has a separate entrance from the outside, its own coffee point and an examination space. There are around 200 staff members working in the back office. They accomplish work over the whole Oil Insurance Company Kazakhstani network. The design of the office space undoubtedly reflects the quality of the team’s work. While planning the office space, the employees’ comfort was considered for the everyday working routine same, as for the professional communications with the customers. The building has plenty of divided working areas such as: meeting rooms arranged by the names of colors, big conference rooms, a relaxation area on the second floor, seven coffee points at various departments decorated in different color styles. Every staff has his or her own box for keeping personal belongings. currently, the favourite ‘open space’ format is the most difficult office to engineer. This format requires various factors to be included: illumination, acoustics of the space, air flow distribution and coordination of employees’ traffic. There are usually several stages with any projects just as was with Oil Insurance Company’s office. These are audits of client’s particularities and requirements; audit of the space – some ‘frames’ to incorporate customer’s individuality; plus combining these two features into one organic way. The company has an acting educational project – ‘the insurance university’, and 300 square meters of the office’s working zone are allotted for this educational project, Contemporary offices today prioritize establishing a friendly atmosphere that can evoke employees’ desire to come into the office with pleasure. It also establishes a sense of trust with the company’s clients for many years ahead. Such offices were made for the people, particularities of their work. All these factors were taken into account while designing the Oil Insurance Company’s new home – the office in Almaty. supported by EUROBAK 55