The Future of Work After COVID 19

There’s no doubting the long-term impact the COVID pandemic is going to have across industries. However, for facility executives, and especially those in office markets, the last couple of days months and going forward have been a giant take stock button. Within a few weeks, the global workforce was thrust into the greatest home working experiment of all time. Recent data across 15 million square feet of global office space shows workplace use dropped more than 80 plus percent below historical averages in March as companies and their employees looked to flatten the COVID-19 curve and stem the pandemic.

Change is Inevitable

Whether we like it or not, change is undoubtedly on the way in the way we work . For a start home working will become a fixture in some shape or form in the coming months or years .Undoubtedly, our safety will be number one, but we will also have new demands for office settings that allow for choice and flexibility in terms of where — be it at home or anywhere within the office — and when tasks are done. These demands will increase the shift to more agile and Activity-Based-Working environments such as business centres or sattelite bases for use several people. Even before work-from-home mandates were widespread, workplace sensors identified employee social distancing occurring throughout offices as workers followed news on the Coronavirus.

The Future

Using a metric called “interaction frequency,” analysts identified that multi-person occupancy of shared spaces were decreasing in early March. As employees return, they’ll likely continue to look for more solo-oriented work spaces such as small conference rooms and phone booths within open office designs.This is where remote business centres such as the Drymen Business Hub come into play.

Drymen Business Hub

The Drymen Business Hub itself has 2 entrances to ensure safe distance practise and can cater for around 6 safe spaces for people looking for an office environment with internet and desk facilities.Cleansing ,wipes and sanitiser products are present for all personnel to ensure that we do our bit to stem any potential spread.Every night the work spaces will be given a rigorous clean down ready for the next day. In summary , the world of work may never be the same again as this mass remote working mandate could prove to be a social/work experiment that few companies would have ever undertaken on such a scale. Will we ever return to our office in the same way ,who knows but we here at the Drymen Hub are ready to do our bit.