Here's how your workplace will be different post-lockdown
One of the most important aspects that will need to change is an unseen aspect: ventilation. Typically, HVAC systems recirculate air around the floor to make sure everyone gets access to heat or air conditioning. That has a downside: “So we're taking my sneeze and we're pumping it back through the building multiple times,” Samuelson says simply. "It's not rocket science to move away from that to dedicated outdoor air systems.
their own vision for a workplace. Their argument: if you are going to sit at a computer with your headphones on all day, just stay home. The only purpose for a shared space is for something that can’t be totally replaced by a Zoom call—creative collaboration. “People only travel to the office when it is necessary or preferable to collaborate physically with colleagues with buzz and energy,” they write of their model, filled with properly-distanced round tables and couches.
Another of Woods Bagot’s models praised “community nodes”: instead of one big HQ, what if companies opted for smaller neighborhood offices near their employee’s homes? “With our reduced desire to use public transport and be among large groups of people, the future in this model is more distributed than consolidated. Its focus is on smaller satellite, community based, offices.
, is already considering this approach, looking at real estate in suburban areas like Long Island and Westchester.Bloombergreopening plan. Work stations, they reported, would be six feet apart. Employees may be required to wear masks in some areas, and undergo temperature checks. The cafeteria will only offer pre-packaged grab-and-go foods. In the beginning, there will be no visitors.
“I think some extreme measures are going to be temporary,” Samuelson says of some of the stricter social-distance measures offices are enacting. “But some things are not going to bounce back. We’ll just have a new normal.”
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