Most organizations recognize the extreme pressures workers are under right now.
The Master Plan to Re-Open Office Space
Most office users are planning a phased re-opening with 15% to 25% of employees returning in each phase.
Workplace Interrupted: People, Technology, And Change
In order to ensure progress and resilience moving forward, we must emphasize that disruption can be a powerful force for change.”
Why We Go to the Office Is Changing
Better Together: The Future of Shared Spaces in the Office
Employee safety will be more important than ever in the offices we return to, but so will social connection and collaboration.
What happens to lavish office perks in a post-pandemic world?
In a post-pandemic world, the Silicon Valley standard office perks of all-you-can-eat buffets and high-tech gyms are no longer very workable—not with social-distancing in place.
Microsoft Aims to Dominate Technology at Work, Starting With Those Video Calls
The tech giant sees Teams, its group conferencing and collaboration software, as critical to its future.
Working Outside The Box Post-COVID-19
If social distancing and remote work are to remain, it will have a profound impact on how we occupy space and how we work together moving forward.
Office Owners Are In No Hurry For Tenants To Return
Most Workers Prefer to Work in the Office, But Need Changes Before They’re Comfortable Returnin
A new Gensler report found than at least half of the 2,300-plus respondents said they’d need stronger policies against coming to work sick, increased opportunities to work from home, and an uptick in office cleaning.
Corporate Office Space To Shrink in the Long Run Due to Multiple Pressures
While the virus will end at some date, its effects will last much longer, noted Messaging Architects.
Working, studying at home spikes home office furniture sales
While much of the business has been in smaller scale or sit-to-stand desks with laptop-friendly work surfaces, home office resources said they also continue to do some business in larger executive office suites.
Not So Fast, 6 Feet Office: Plexiglass Cubes Can’t Solve Coronavirus Conundrum
How Companies Can Support Work-From-Home Best Practices in the Long Term
Surveyed workers also reported that collaborating and staying informed on team members’ activities is more challenging to do while working outside of the office.
Insights From Gensler’s U.S. Work From Home Survey 2020
Reports of the Death of the Workplace Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Staying on top of the science and letting the dust settle before investing in what might be expensive, short-term, or short-sighted solutions is probably the smartest thing employers can do.
The role of workplace professionals in the new era of work
For office owners and property managers, now’s the time to think further ahead: what support, skills and services will these occupiers need from us when they do return?
Microsoft Looks to Add Distance to Collaborative Work Spaces
The company's head of global real estate says that Microsoft isn't in any rush to get employees back into offices. But when they do return the goal is to work in team rooms and "neighborhoods," with appropriate social distancing.
The New Office Is An Ecosystem of Workspaces and Experiences
Unquestionably, COVID-19 has dramatically changed the way we work and our concept of the workplace. But the question that businesses are now wrestling with is, how those changes will affect offices as they reopen?
