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Workers Return to Weirder Offices With Moveable Walls and Touchless Elevators

(Bloomberg) Masked, desk-bound and unable to recognize their colleagues in an elevator, people are starting to return to offices in cities around the world where the pandemic is receding. Many will find their offices transformed, too. In the challenge to make offices both Covid-safe and attractive places to work, firms have been experimenting with working arrangements and space while employees toiled at home. Some gave up floor space to adjust to less rigid schedules, others introduced movable walls to create flexible areas. Many installed safety innovations such as touchless lifts and worked to improve air quality. Lockdowns have provided a “fantastic opportunity to create and recreate a new world for each of us, which may, for each company, be slightly different,” said Neil McLocklin, a Knight Frank LLP partner. Employees of Arcadis NV, a design and engineering consultancy, will be able to choose one of 20 different types of workspace via an app when they move into new offices

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Offices transform with movable walls, touchless elevators as workers return

Many Workers Begin to Return to Offices Transformed by COVID Safety Innovations

Many Workers Begin to Return to Offices Transformed by COVID Safety Innovations By Todd Gillespie and Jack Sidders | May 26, 2021 Masked, desk-bound and unable to recognize their colleagues in an elevator, people are starting to return to offices in cities around the world where the pandemic is receding. Many will find their offices transformed, too. In the challenge to make offices both COVID-safe and attractive places to work, firms have been experimenting with working arrangements and space while employees toiled at home. Some gave up floor space to adjust to less rigid schedules, others introduced movable walls to create flexible areas. Many installed safety innovations such as touchless lifts and worked to improve air quality.

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What s it like to go back to the office now? Weird, with masks, moveable walls and touchless elevators

What s it like to go back to the office now? Weird, with masks, moveable walls and touchless elevators
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Arcadis new London HQ: What goes into a post-covid office | Features

By Jordan Marshall2021-02-25T06:00:00+00:00 The hybrid work model has arrived - with fewer desks but a big focus on smart tech and wellbeing Boris Johnson s unveiling of the routemap out of lockdown over four months means business leaders now have a timeframe in mind when thinking about a return of employees to the office. Conversations around remote, flexible and hybrid ways of working have been going on for months - with firms looking at how changing work habits and safety requirements will affect their built asset needs. This is where Sarah-Jane Osborne enters the picture. Osborne, who is the head of workscape at Arcadis, leads a team working with 1,600 clients to help evaluate the needs of their workforces and how to translate that into their office space. It is a specialism massively affected by the changes brought about by the pandemic. While the team works with companies across all sectors of the economy, there is one project that stands out: Arcadis own impending move f

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