Workspace designers are at the forefront of efforts to design and organize companies to optimize performance and safety for employees-not an easy task during the COVID-19 pandemic. As some offices now look to reopen, organizations face unprecedented challenges about how work is done, the role of the workplace, and what working model to adopt.ĭiane Hoskins, co-CEO of Gensler, a global design and architecture firm, has been thinking about effective workplaces for decades and is now helping her clients navigate the next normal. When asked, most employees now want more flexible working models and would consider switching jobs to get them.
3 Corean Canty, “Can remote work really improve workplace diversity?,” Fast Company, July 9, 2020.
and may actually give diverse kinds of talent more opportunities to thrive. Here are just a few: Roy Maurer, “Study finds productivity not deterred by shift to remote work,” SHRM, SeptemJulian Birkinshaw, Jordan Cohen, and Pawel Stach, “Research: Knowledge workers are more productive from home,” Harvard Business Review, AugRebecca Stropoli, “Are we really more productive working from home?,” Chicago Booth Review, Aug“Surprising working from home productivity statistics (2022),” Apollo Technical, January 2, 2022. The stigma previously associated with remote-working models has largely ended, and some studies indicate that more flexible and remote-working options don’t necessarily diminish productivity 2 Research into the productivity of remote work is ongoing, with studies supporting both sides of the debate. 1 Nicholas Bloom, “How working from home works out,” Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, June 2020. During the pandemic, about 42 percent of the US labor force-representing almost two-thirds of US economic activity-shifted to working from home. Over the course of the pandemic, organizations have rapidly changed how they responded to both the health risks of COVID-19 and the impact of unprecedented workplace restrictions to safeguard employees from the virus.
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