When 3200 Woodside workers start moving to their new 32-storey headquarters near Mitchell Freeway this week, it will be a short walk to a very different high-tech way of working together.

They will leave behind at the old St Georges Terrace office three symbols of office life — a security badge, paperwork and a desk to call their own.

Instead, they will enter their workplace with a fingerprint scan, sit at any desk in their team’s area, and pull their laptop from a bag designed especially for Woodside’s new office.

Camera Icon Woodside’s new headquarters in Perth’s CBD. Credit: Michael Wilson

To work with another team, employees simply take their laptop and bag and set themselves up at another desk.

Woodside chief technology officer Shaun Gregory said the company wanted to use technology to make it easier for people to get together.

“The working environment is literally designed from the ground up to enable collaboration — whether you need quiet time or you need team time,” he said.

Camera Icon The view from the top floor of the Woodside building. Credit: The West Australian

All floors are connected by an open internal staircase, and each floor has a colour scheme based on one of the six Noongar seasons.

Woodside has named its urban campus Mia Yellagonga, after the Whadjuk elder who lived nearby and met Capt. James Stirling.

As well as the office tower, the campus has a 400-seat auditorium, a fitness centre with a 25m lap pool and storage for almost 700 bicycles.

Camera Icon Each floor has a colour scheme based on Noongar seasons. Credit: The West Australian

Partners and children of the oil and gas company’s employees have been issued their own access cards to a family centre on level two, where they can meet for lunch or a game of table tennis.

The move into the environmentally-friendly building finally brings life back to the site of the Emu Brewery demolished 26 years ago.

Camera Icon Touring the new Woodside’s new HQ in the Perth CBD Credit: Michael Wilson

There is still a brew on tap, but this time it is individually tailored coffee ordered with an app and dispensed through a tap in the office kitchens.