Until now, offices have been designed primarily around business needs, with some nods toward fire safety, but going forward, companies also will have to design workspaces and employee schedules with an eye toward reducing disease transmission, experts say.
Until now, offices have been designed primarily around business needs, with some nods toward fire safety, said Nellie Brown, director of workplace health and safety programs at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
," said Robert Siegel, a lecturer in management at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. "You don't want people congregating in the elevator," Brown said."You don't want everybody arriving at the one time." "Why would you give someone their own permanent space if they're only in there two days a week?" Siegel said. Instead, a business might set up a series of shared cubicles that people use when they come into the office.
If you do keep your own desk, Brown predicts you won't be allowed to keep it as messy as you like."You're going to have to rethink how much clutter you have on your desktop so people can come in and disinfect for you," she said. "We can't afford that, regardless of what the person's got," Brown said."We've never been able to afford it."Siegel thinks the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that people simply don't need to be in the office for work to get done. It's a lesson he's learned teaching his college classes online.
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