Offices aren’t going anywhere, but the virus outbreak represents a chance to streamline how they look, feel, and function.
What Do Distributed Teams Mean for Office Spaces?
Twitter says staff can continue working from home permanently
Twitter appears to be taking an understandably cautious approach toward returning to work — a luxury afforded to the company by the flexibility of remote work.
The federal government's plan for opening offices could be all bark
All sorts of office employers are now strategizing their returns to the workplace. This is prompting a wave of technological adaptations, from touchless technologies to tenant experience platforms, notification systems for cleaning crews and beyond.
COVID-19 showed my company a better way to work—with 50% fewer offices
OpenText didn’t set out to shift to remote work. But it’s gone so well that 2,000 of its 15,000 employees will work from home on a permanent basis.
Back to work: design solutions for the post-COVID-19 office
With vast amounts of time, energy and money spent on transitioning the modern workplace into open, fluid and shared spaces, office life post-COVID-19 has some design challenges ahead in creating an environment that make employees feel safe and comfortable.
Reopening the Coronavirus-Era Office: One-Person Elevators, No Cafeterias
Companies, in adapting the workplace for Covid-19, are reversing a push to cram workers into tighter spaces.
The return of the cubicle? Companies rethink office life post lockdown
For workers used to interacting on open plan floors, sanitizing office life and boosting remote working could limit their opportunity to swap ideas and weaken company culture. It also makes integrating new staff more difficult.
The Original Meaning Of Social Distancing And Why Every Creative Should Know It
You would be forgiven for thinking that social distancing only recently stormed into the global lexicon in the wake of the COVID-19 health crisis. Yet the phrase was already in the air nearly two decades ago.
Tips for Signage and Wayfinding in a Post-COVID-19 World
As employees and customers step carefully back into the world, we will need to shift our behaviors, interactions, and ways of moving through space.
When, Or If, Office Occupancy Rebounds
Office sector players agree there will be an increased demand for space flexibility in the future, but they are divided on how much lower occupancy rates in traditional offices will be when the current pandemic subsides, if at all.
How companies are supporting employees during COVID-19
Employees reluctant to give up flexible working after lockdown
New working patterns prompted by COVID-19 could cause employees to permanently reduce time spent in the office, as nearly half (45 percent) of Brits predict a permanent change to their employers’ approach to flexible working when lockdown lifts.
Reducing COVID-19 Transmission in the Built Environment
Seeing a need to understand the potential role of building infrastructure in transmitting the novel coronavirus, a team of scientists and building technology experts fervently began reviewing more than a decade’s worth of microbiology research. Within a week, they submitted a draft for journal publication. Here’s an excerpt of their final paper.
Searching for a solution to noise in an open-plan office
One of the key culprits in causing unhappiness in open-plan spaces is noise – and, according to an OnOffice round table of office design experts hosted by furniture brand Bisley, it isn't just volume that is the issue in most spaces.
Welcome Back to the Office. Your Every Move Will Be Watched.
Survey: 69% Of Companies Plan To Shrink Office Footprint, Increase Remote Work
Some major office landlords have asserted that they don't expect a long-term demand drop, despite some major financial CEOs predicting their own companies would reduce their office usag
Okta, Gensler And Colliers On The Art Of Designing Offices For People In Them Less
Immediate changes to office design include allowing for 6 feet between workers and halving conference room capacity, while other precautions include the use of professional cleaning and sanitation through the workday.
The Pandemic May Mean the End of the Open-Floor Office
As businesses contemplate the return of workers to their desks, many are considering large and small changes to the modern workplace culture and trappings.
A Pandemic Won’t Kill the Open Office, but Slack Could
Taking down walls made modern offices cheaper, infuriating, and perfect vectors for viral spread. But as a recession looms, they still may not be going anywhere.
We asked what you want the Office of the Future to be. Here's what you said.
Many people expressed surprise about how easy it is to keep productivity high when working from home if the right technology is in place and it is not something people are forced to do every day.