Still in the teeth of a deadly pandemic, the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs started the season on Dec. 23 with no protective bubble and vaccine availability still weeks away. Some 250 people assigned to work 36 home games needed assurance it was safe to work in the team’s one-million-square-foot AT&T Center.
“ ‘There are baseline technologies that most organizations will have to sign up for: health monitoring, workspace redesign for flexible office hours, and filtering systems.’ ” The Office ‘Mud Room’ A 3,000-square-foot “safe office” prototype called Workplace 2030 tests a touchless environment that starts with an encrypted mobile app that allows employees to enter the San Francisco office by simply waving a smartphone at a sensor on a door.
Wearables Samsung Electronics Co. 005930, +0.48% is one of at least 60 companies that offer wearables in the fight against COVID-19. Bluetooth signals on its Galaxy Watch Active2 smartwatch are used by Ford Motor Co. and others to gauge how far the devices are from each other, helping workers maintain social-distancing practices.
Masking compliance RealNetworks Inc. RNWK, -7.55% developed a free app that lets businesses and schools monitor mask compliance. MaskCheck, used at Modern Liquors in Washington, D.C., and at the private Bush School in Seattle, might become a template for company entry lobbies. RealNetworks uses it at its Seattle headquarters.
But is that a permanent change?
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