Home office Covid-19 workplace divide: those with a home office & those without. We’re all home workers now. What’s needed to settle down to work in unsettling times/spaces: A dedicated workspace. A solid, spacious desk. A comfy chair. Overhead & desk lamps. Ideally, a window. Adjust as needed for online meetings – ironically, when working…
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Infiltrate Lockdown challenge: how to stop life infiltrating work? Create time & space boundaries around our working day. Find a desk sanctuary or separate work zone. If space is scarce, set up & pack up home office each day. Can’t allow working from home to become living at work. Out of the mouth of babes Guessed…
Layout Covid-19 permanent alteration: changed & changeable workspace layout. We’ll have to adjust to cubicles, room dividers, perspex screens, well-spaced back-to-back work stations, fewer chairs, voice-activated doors/lifts, copper fixtures, UV lighting, separate entrances/exits, one-way corridors, floor directional markings. Open plan shuts Guessed the Word? Series 57 (4/8) …
White elephant When it arose, Canary Wharf was called a white elephant. But in 2012, it overtook the City of London as an employer of bankers & 120,000 people now work there. New challenge: how to remain king of the jungle & adapt its fortress-like towers to the open, flexible workspace now in vogue? Guessed…