Hendrick Architecture + Design Reimagines Mag Mutual Headquarters as a Hospitality-Forward, Culture-First Workplace
Hendrick Architecture + Design has completed the transformation of Mag Mutual’s new 40,000-square foot Atlanta headquarters, creating a hospitality-forward environment designed to elevate workplace culture, enhance flexibility, and strengthen human connection. The project continues a decade long partnership between the two organizations and represents a strategic shift in how Mag Mutual supports its hybrid workforce.
Before design began, Hendrick conducted an in-depth workplace strategy engagement including surveys, focus groups, and leadership interviews to understand how employees were working in a free address model. The findings revealed an opportunity to expand choice, simplify the meeting experience, and create a fully integrated, activity-based ecosystem that supports a wide range of workstyles throughout the day.
The resulting design is shaped by five core drivers:
encouraging meaningful connection
enabling flexible work across diverse settings
fostering innovation through frictionless collaboration
elevating space performance by reimagining underutilized areas
enhance employee wellness
A large, light-filled work café now anchors the arrival experience with warm materials, handcrafted details, and a hospitality-infused atmosphere. A dramatic internal stair visually and physically connects both floors, complemented by a secondary café and a self-serve market to support all-day use.
To better support a meeting-heavy culture, the headquarters now offers a full spectrum of meeting environments from reservable conference rooms and focus areas to informal huddle spaces and a multipurpose training room with mobile, battery-powered tables that enable rapid reconfiguration. All enclosed rooms are equipped with occupancy sensors and integrated room-booking technology for seamless scheduling.
To support overall employee wellness, the open office spans the exterior window line to maximize natural light, while glass-fronted enclosed rooms preserve transparency and borrowed daylight. Amenities include a wellness room, a dedicated respite lounge with chaise seating, biophilic elements throughout, and low-VOC materials to support healthy indoor air quality.
A cohesive interior branding program reinforces Mag Mutual’s mission and values across both floors, creating a continuous narrative for employees and visitors alike.
Early employee feedback has been enthusiastic, with staff gravitating toward preferred settings rather than assigned seats exactly the type of choice, ownership, and excitement the design set out to inspire.
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