Welcome!
Welcome to the Thrive@Resources website! Thrive@Resources is a new movement across the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) aimed at helping us grow as employees and people to innovate, diversify, and empower one another. It provides resources to transform our workplace and support our workforce, enabling us to build dynamic teams that work together to advance our mission.
Leaders across CNRA's Boards, Departments, Conservancies, Councils, and Museums have been busy reimagining our workplace and how we can best support employees across the agency. We have a unique opportunity to capitalize on the challenges and lessons learned from the shift to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic and apply them to the planning for the future of our workplaces—working together in new and innovative ways.
This website will be a go-to guide regarding information on upcoming changes to the way we work, including the new California Natural Resources Agency Headquarters building in Sacramento. Please explore this site with a mind toward the goals of creating a more flexible and innovative workplace—one that enables high productivity and strong job satisfaction.
As Secretary, it is my goal to give you the tools and information you need so you are prepared for these upcoming changes and exciting opportunities. If you have questions about this website or about our workplace transformation efforts, contact us at thrive@resources.ca.gov
Thank you for all you do and your continued hard work. Onward!
-- Wade Crowfoot Secretary, California Natural Resources Agency
New Natural Resources Headquarters
The new Natural Resources Headquarters Building in Sacramento is located at 715 P Street. The building is equipped with modern workplace technology such as voice over IP (VOIP) telephone capability and managed print services (MPS) to meet our printing, copying, and faxing capabilities. There is strong wireless and cellular signal capability in the building, allowing us to transition to a more mobile work-friendly environment. This allows staff to move about the building more readily and collaborate in the new casual gathering areas and meeting rooms. As we are able to move back into our buildings when appropriate, we will be looking to embrace the ability to have remote-centric staff who spend most of their working days at a remote location rather than at their physical building location. These changes allow an improved work-life balance, decrease our commuting impact, and reduce our overall need for building facilities.
Workplace Transformation
CNRA management is reviewing how best to maximize the usage of the new building layout to achieve a highly collaborative work environment as well as what arrangements work best at all CNRA facilities. Many components of the new building will embody the State's latest approach on creating an interactive and collaborative workplace, while considering the needs of all of the departments, promoting flexibility to accommodate those needs. Workplace flexibilities and hybrid work schedules will be supported as well as accommodations for employees traveling to Sacramento, providing modular privacy booths and enclosed collaborative pods to enhance this experience in our new building.
Our Workplace and COVID-19
As stay-at-home orders are modified, it is essential that all possible steps be taken to ensure the safety of our workers and the public. CNRA and its umbrella organizations have developed guidance for employees returning to the workplace. As safety leaders, we all have an obligation to keep informed, promote proven health and safety protocols, and be proactive in implementing these practices at work and at home. CNRA will work to communicate work-site specific plans (as they are completed) to ensure additional protocols by location are known. The guidance and plans will likely have to change as new information becomes available about the impacts of COVID-19. We appreciate your patience and presence during this challenging time.