The office will never be the same. What people can expect when they return to the office, or if the new office is home.
The days of crowded elevators, open floor plans and communal lunch tables may be gone for good — or at least for a while.
New infections are leveling off around the country, and slowly but surely, cities are declaring themselves open for business. That is shifting the focus to the safe return to work, with commercial real estate giant Cushman & Wakefield at the forefront of those efforts. “We have a key that we're going to be providing everybody, which they can use to touch the photocopier or the touch other buttons that they need to. Also we do have technologies in the office, where if you walk into a meeting room the lights automatically come off on after a period of time they, they go off as well,” he said.
Meanwhile, collaborative gatherings will be a thing of the past, as congregating will be discouraged. It also spells the end to communal kitchens, meaning employees will visit in staggered shifts.Google , Facebook and Zillow are among the companies that have employees they could work at home until 2021, and possibly longer. However, work-from-home situations are fraught with their own perils, as the lines between work and home get blurred.
“Set up a news and social media cutoff point at some point during the day, charge your phone outside your bedroom, so that you don't wake up in the middle of the night and are tempted to scroll through social media which makes it harder to go back to sleep,” she told Yahoo Finance. “The ...health and wellness of employees has now been moved to the front burner. In many companies before the coronavirus pandemic, it was like a nice to have benefit,”she said. “Now it's an imperative.”
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