) show how a typical 9-5 day at a hot desk in a packed building will not be resuming when governments globally give the green light for offices to reopen.For the world’s biggest advertising company WPP, staff will return gradually and on a voluntary basis, Chief Executive Mark Read told Reuters.
WPP has also adopted flexible working hours, limited the number of people in elevators and, with the canteen buffet off the menu, staff are bringing in their own food. Those measures will form the blueprint for the management team overseeing the return of some 7,500 staff to other offices, Forster said.Since reopening its seven main branches in China last month, Rentokil’s 600 staff stay in the office for about 4-5 hours a day, a spokesperson said. It has also rejigged seating plans, making sure there’s an empty seat between each desk.
For workers used to interacting on open plan floors, sanitising 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.
So consultants sold elderly CEOs that open floor concepts are better for the front line...now the same consultants will sell them again on creating a safe, cubicle environment. 🤷🏻♂️
Nope, more WFH
Would be very happy to see the end of the open floor plan in offices.
LoL. Who ever thought that open spaces make it good working environment (except for dumb managers)
KayBurley Will it end the ritual of bringing in cakes for everybody on your birthday?
That is why we want to continue to work fm Home
My office...
Like on those films from the 80's!
Haha. The start of WFH generation.
Designing th new safe offices. Partitioned private cabins with digital (video & audio) interfaces. No personal face to face, but only behind glass partitions. Strict crowd control. Visit only by appointment. Centralized public dealings. Vision ahead. COVID19 COVID PMOIndia UN
Or as Douglas Coupland called them: Veal Fattening Pens.
They haven't gone anywhere. Storage maybe for companies not using them. The cubicle is the worst invention for office set up. Big buildings divided when they weren't supposed to be makes HVAC impossible.
Never touching the water cooler again!
Now I have started thinking if we invest so much just in preparation for another pandemic, will it not be a crisis of unsustainability itself?
Employees getting their own office would protect employees even more.
here maybe this could help...
Thank God! This communal work space was a bad idea. Sanity will return to the work place. Peace and quite will return! Thought once again possible.
The demise of the 'open office' concept.
مصر أحدث الأخبار, مصر عناوين
Similar News:يمكنك أيضًا قراءة قصص إخبارية مشابهة لهذه التي قمنا بجمعها من مصادر إخبارية أخرى.
مصدر: WSJ - 🏆 98. / 63 اقرأ أكثر »
مصدر: CNBC - 🏆 12. / 72 اقرأ أكثر »