Daylight, natural ventilation, and unfinished wood surfaces can all reduce the abundance of harmful pathogens.
How architects can stop COVID-19 from spreading indoors
Office Workers Will Return With Radically Different Expectations And Worries
After months of working from home, millions will someday return to their offices with radically different expectations and worries than they had before the crisis.
Two-thirds of US workers are working in isolation
The report claims that 44 percent of all workers are currently working from home 5 or more days per week, up from 17 percent before the pandemic.
Creating Data-Rich Workplaces to Detect and Curb Viral Transmission
While we live in a connected global community made up of smart cities and spaces powered by data and digital technology, the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed gaps in what we know.
Full Video: What’s Next? How We Will Work Differently Post-COVID-19
A stimulating conversation with futurist, Adam Zuckerman, moderated by Work Design publisher, Bob Fox.
How the Pandemic Will Revolutionize the Office Both Physically and Fundamentally
Some of the major office adjustments to consider include installing “no-touch” technology, revising office designs and layouts, setting social distancing parameters, augmenting cleaning protocols, new sick-time, and remote work policies, and most importantly, according to public health experts, ensuring indoor air quality.
This is the end of the office as we know it
The pandemic already pushed millions to work from home. Many of them will likely go back to a very different office.
Taking Care of Each Other in the Post-Pandemic Open Office
The concept of community is helpful to keep in mind as we begin to imagine what it will be like to re-occupy the workplace following this pandemic.
Bringing Elements of Home into the Workplace
Though working from home under these conditions is less than ideal, the situation has brought out people’s resiliency, creativity, and adaptability.
Understanding the Touchless Workplace
When we return to our physical workplaces, we need to rethink how we introduce interfaces that aren’t just frictionless, but also touchless.
Workers Won't Return To The Same Office Space They Left
Open-plan office space, so recently the wave of the future, could soon be a distant memory as office space is marked by dividers and punctuated by private rooms.
Defining the Future Workplace
Returning to the office after the Covid-19 Crisis
As unprecedented disruption and change ripple across the business landscape due to the global COVID- 19 pandemic, what are the impacts on the future state of the workplace?
Three quarters of people believe online meetings are a waste of time
The study surveyed 2,000 remote working professionals and claims that men are most likely to see them as a waste of time.
7 ways of doing business by Zoom that are here to stay
The coronavirus has caused a seismic shift in industries across the board—changes that may be here to stay.
Our offices will never be the same after COVID-19. Here’s what they could look like
Is salutogenic design the next big issue for the workplace?
Biophilic design has already achieved mainstream understanding and it wouldn’t be a surprise to see salutogenic design as the next idea to cross over.
Will coronavirus change the way we think about modern offices for good?
As coronavirus impacts our regular working lives for the foreseeable future, might this be the point that companies are forced to examine not just the way we work in terms of offering more remote working, but also how our offices are designed to promote health and wellbeing?
COVID-19 Catastrophe Won't End Soon, And Will Remake How We Use Office Space
Necessity has led almost overnight to entirely new ways of running businesses, and companies should start learning from the upheaval,
