With nearly 3 quarters of American workers embracing a return to the office, it’s never been more important for office-based businesses to ensure their office fitouts are COVID-compliant and pleasant to work in.
But what does that mean? What does it look like to fit out your office to maximize both COVID safety and employee comfort in this brave new world of ours? What impact does it have on your office furniture arrangement?
Well, you can stop worrying, because we’re here to answer all your questions about prepping your workplace for a COVID-safe and comfortable return to the office!
Fit Out Your Office for COVID Safety
The most important thing is the safety of you and your employees. That’s why, before anything else, you have to make sure your office arrangements are organized around keeping everyone healthy while COVID is still a danger.
There’s plenty of ways to accomplish this. For example, make use of the space available in your office to maintain social distancing as much as possible. Office desks shouldn’t be crammed together, but spread apart so as to minimize unnecessary social contact as much as possible.
Likewise, when you’re planning out where to put the office furniture, consider questions of flow. Which way are people going to be walking? If you can arrange it so that traffic flows around your office in a one-way system, where workers don’t have to pass close by one another, you have a great impact on COVID risk.
And, of course, install hand sanitizers, and encourage employees to disinfect their workstations from time to time.
An Office Furniture Arrangement That Focuses on Comfort
For all this talk of COVID rules, you could be forgiven for forgetting that offices also have to be comfortable, enjoyable places to work.
But comfort needs to be a key part of office fitouts. After all, it’s not enough for employees to feel safe in the office, they have to want to be there. That’s why there are office fitout companies that focus especially on these issues.
Lots of offices are trying to create a ‘work from home at work’ vibe. Soft carpets, interesting decor, plants, and other creature comforts are enlisted to make workers feel as cozy and comfy at work as they do in their bedrooms.
A great advantage of this is that it provides an opportunity to green your working environment. You and make major investments in both the sustainability and comfort of your office arrangements while you’re trying to coax everyone back into the office.
Keeping Everyone Happy and Healthy
These are just a few quick tips to think about as you fit out your office. These are strange and complicated times, but hopefully this advice can be the bedrock of an office fitout strategy that lets everyone make the absolute best of their return to the world of the office.
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