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This week the government is unveiling the measures it expects office occupiers to put in place so people can start to go back to work. Under new rules, hot desking will be out, and the distance between workers required for social distancing could be measured out using tape.
The process will be fraught with fear, for staff and employers alike. The coronavirus appears to be receding, but is far from vanquished. But maybe technology can help occupiers reassure staff that their workplace is as safe as it is possible to be at this time.
“Making data available to people can alleviate fear and build trust,” Gilbert Lennox-King, HB Reavis director of UK & Western Europe for Symbiosy, told the audience of a Bisnow London webinar on how technology can facilitate a smooth return to the workplace. Symbiosy is the tech and sensory platform created by developer HB Reavis that allows occupiers to measure and control multiple facets of the space they occupy, including density, air quality and cleanliness.
It will be impossible to completely alleviate the concerns of workers until a vaccine or treatment for the coronavirus has been found. But here are the key ways HB Reavis sees that technology can help to reduce the fear of going back to the office, including benefits that will outlast…
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