Over the past year, I’ve had numerous conversations with clients about how to hire, inspire and retain their millennial employees. It seems many leaders I work are struggling to find the “right” answer, but there are as many answers to this question as there are industries, offices and jobs.

I was recently introduced to the idea of leveraging workplace design as a tool for retaining and recruiting millennial employees when my firm, Baker Tilly, remodeled our offices. Prior to the remodel, employees were surveyed on issues such as privacy, flexibility within a work station, need for social interaction and variety of work spaces. Synthesizing this information — from more than 200 employees — into viable recommendations would be a big job.

You may be asking yourself if it really makes sense to invest in an office renovation to attract and retain millennials. My answer to that is a resounding “yes!”

A recent survey found nearly 90 percent of workers are less than satisfied with their work environment. With the cost of replacing a millennial employee ranging between $15,000 to $20,000, according to Millennial Branding, and with more than one-in-three American workers being a Millennial, reevaluating your current office layout and amenities may provide real benefits.

Consider this example:

There’s no place like work when it feels like home

As our office renovation was taking shape, a friend who owns an engineering consulting firm was completing his own office renovation. Highly talented millennial engineers are not easy to identify and recruit, making retention vital, and he found he was losing many of these millennial employees because of the long hours often required to finish projects.

As a baby boomer, he had readily worked long hours to finish projects and advance his career, but once he recognized that this new generation simply thought about work differently, he made some sweeping changes to his office. Couches were brought in and placed throughout the office, a lounge was created with a fireplace, big screen TVs and game stations and the kitchen was stocked with healthy snacks.