BetterSpaces helps to craft just that: Spaces that are better for – and better serve – the people who occupy them by engaging tenants across companies and properties to offer a fulfilling environment for all. Now, the New York-based company’s services will be available at select Bergman Real Estate Group properties.

On June 13, the Woodbridge real estate investment and management company announced its new partnership with BetterSpaces, which will add on-site, in-person weekly classes focused on health, fitness, art and general well-being to Century Campus in Parsippany, Jefferson Exchange in Whippany, 500 College Road E. in Princeton, and 7 Giralda Farms in Madison.

Bergman said BetterSpaces will also offer quarterly tenant events at those and several other office buildings that it owns or manages.

“BetterSpaces helps companies like ours offer more value to our tenants,” Bergman Real Estate Group CEO Michael Bergman said in a statement. “We are now able to provide weekly classes and other fun events and activities at our buildings that we feel create a new level of interest and a sense of community for our tenants.”

That sense of community and interesting, engaging atmospheres are particularly important as businesses plot out what the future of work will look like – and tempt workers to return to the collective spaces – following extended work-from-home realities that resulted from the pandemic. On top of that, BetterSpaces says that those engaged and happy employees actually demonstrate improved productivity, accuracy and higher sales than those who feel disconnected from their work.

“People need culture and community now more than ever,” said BetterSpaces Co-founder Keith Angell.

“Many employers are thinking of creative ways to offer more to their employees as they return to the office,” added Bergman. “A wellness program like the one we are offering through BetterSpaces is an attractive, exciting, and inviting incentive program that tenants in our properties can enjoy at no cost to them or their employees.”

While the firm does not currently have plans to roll-out the onsite services at any other of its properties, Bergman said it will continue to evaluate demand and use and may consider further expansion in the future. Across its portfolio, all tenants and employees will have access to the BetterSpaces app, which offers 15 live classes per week in addition to on-demand digital programs focused on health, wellness, mindfulness and fitness.

Many of Bergman’s properties already offer the latest in amenities – another big draw in aiding the return-to-work – including game rooms, lounge areas, fitness centers, high-tech conference rooms, bike shares and more.

New York-based BetterSpaces offers science-backed health, wellness and fitness programming through building-wide and tenant-level engagements with employees. The programs cover mental health, workplace well-being, physical fitness, personal enrichment and professional development. The company also provides its services at the live-work-play Glenpointe campus in Teaneck from Alfred Sanzari Enterprises.