While the COVID-19 pandemic has changed our professional habits, it has also created several opportunities, including the reinvention of the office during a health crisis; or how to continue going to one’s workplace in complete safety and peace of mind.
Here are 5 measures for COVID-proof offices:
Consider prevention, engagement, and zoning signage; it is important for useful spaces to be properly defined to allow users to navigate a functional whole.
- Incorporate greenery; an anti-covid space remains a space with life above all. Restrictions are already anxiety-inducing, and soothing the atmosphere with plants lessens the impact of directive signage.
- If your floor space permits, consider keeping an informal meeting area where you can gather your employees, no longer around a meeting table, but in a living space while respecting social distancing, which is nonetheless less rigid than a traditional meeting.
- Choose furniture that offers “fun” but preventive separations. It is also possible to maintain open-plan spaces with smart furniture.
- Promote natural ventilation and provide employees with lockers to store their personal belongings; this will make disinfecting and cleaning desks and spaces simpler and more effective.
Finally, this crisis teaches us that it is essential to adapt and be agile, but it is also possible to continue going to one’s workplace by putting the necessary conditions in place. These five tips also allow us to engage in dialogue with different users, involve them in the redesign of their office, and involve them in a new dynamic.
