Integrated access to artificial intelligence, an autonomous robotics lab, and frictionless biometric access technology are among the highlights of a new workplace campus unveiled in Perth.

Designed by global interior design firm Unispace, in conjunction with energy company Woodside, Mia Yellagonga holds the highest Green Star rating possible with six stars, while also achieving a five-star NABERS rating. 

The development was built to house up to 5000 Woodside employees, with a campus that spans 64,000 square metres, and includes a 32-storey main tower.

Unispace Design Principal Dean Rikanovic said the aim was to create a holistic environment that fostered greater efficiencies and increased employee attraction, motivation and retention.

“Mia Yellagonga is the first campus in Australia to provide a more holistic approach to health by encouraging wellbeing and creating synergies between work and life," he said.

The games room at Mia Yellagonga. Source: Unispace

“Wellbeing is now about providing a more meaningful experience that supports a pathway for healthier minds, bodies, places and cultures. 

"Mia Yellagonga’s design recognises the importance of creating a healthy workplace culture, where business performance and human effectiveness are promoted and enabled as much as social and family connection."

Mia Yellagonga gets its name from the Whadjuk Noongar Aboriginal title of the elder who welcomed Captain Stirling onto the building’s culturally significant site.

The theme is continued throughout the structure's interior, with each floor designed to represent one of the six cultural Whadjuk Noongar seasons.

More than 60 workplace settings are enabled by the sit-to-stand motorised desking, ergonomic and agile light set-up, stand-tables, collaborative spaces and even an app-based program that allows people to find each other.

There is also a dedicated wellbeing floor on level 14, which contains a universal multi-faith prayer room, parenting suites, a mindfulness area, a massage chair, fireplace, chill-out area, viewing platform with telescope, and a library featuring artificial intelligence in the form of Woodside’s cognitive assistant ‘Willow’. 

Woodside Senior Vice President Corporate & Legal Michael Abbott said Mia Yellagonga was a strategic asset to drive the company’s success over the long term. 

“Mia Yellagonga has dramatically transformed the way we work, and showcases Woodside as a partner and employer of choice," he said.

“We believe Mia Yellagonga provides a very strong proposition in the marketplace that will allow us to attract, motivate and retain the best talent in Australia and globally, further strengthening our company’s future.

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