Pallavi Dean on remote working and the future of office design
Director of the United Arab Emirate's award-winning interior design studio Roar Pallavi Dean explains the untapped potential of remote working.
Director of the United Arab Emirate's award-winning interior design studio Roar Pallavi Dean explains the untapped potential of remote working.
As of just a year ago, the business world could only speculate that the future of work would be remote.
We are in the middle of the largest test of home-working in history, and corporates are adopting, refining and testing policies, processes and infrastructure to make it work.
Home-cooked lunches and no commuting while we deal with coronavirus can’t compensate for what’s lost in creativity.
Working from home is known to be good for a strong work-life balance, advantageous for employee productivity, and is even touted as being beneficial for the environment.
Railway operators and other businesses have been introducing soundproof booths at train stations for company workers seeking to do work outside the office, buoyed by the promotion of teleworking to ease traffic congestion during next year's Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
Nearly 70 percent of millennials would be more likely to choose an employer who offered remote working according to one study.