Zsembery at the design firm Bergmeyer working on the installation of safe distancing messages at the firms offices in Boston. When workers around the world eventually return to their desks, they’ll find many changes due to the pandemic. For a start, fewer people will go back to their offices as the coronavirus crisis makes working from home more accepted, health concerns linger and companies weigh up rent savings and productivity benefits. — Photos: AP
LONDON: Office jobs are never going to be the same.
When workers around the world eventually return to their desks, they’ll find many changes due to the pandemic. For a start, fewer people will go back to their offices as the coronavirus crisis makes working from home more accepted, health concerns linger and companies weigh up rent savings and productivity benefits.
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Zsembery at the design firm Bergmeyer working on the installation of safe distancing messages at the firms offices in Boston. When workers around the world eventually return to their desks, they’ll find many changes due to the pandemic. For a start, fewer people will go back to their offices as the coronavirus crisis makes working from home more accepted, health concerns linger and companies weigh up rent savings and productivity benefits. — Photos: AP
John Furneaux, CEO of startup Hive, posing for a portrait in New York. Office jobs are never going to be the same after the lockdown. When the world's white-collar employees return to their workplaces, they'll find myriad adjustments by their companies to reflect the post-pandemic 'new normal' way of life, senior executives and human resources experts say. — AP
Zsembery at the design firm Bergmeyer organising sterilising equipment at the firm's offices in Boston. Out of concern for the coronavirus Bergmeyer is restructuring the way its workspace is used, including reinstalling dividers on 85 desks at its Boston office that had been removed over the years. — AP
John Furneaux, CEO of startup Hive, posing for a portrait in New York. Office jobs are never going to be the same after the lockdown. When the world's white-collar employees return to their workplaces, they'll find myriad adjustments by their companies to reflect the post-pandemic 'new normal' way of life, senior executives and human resources experts say. — AP
Zsembery applies a safe distancing message to a wall at the firms offices in Boston. Design firm Bergmeyer is reinstalling dividers on 85 desks at its Boston office that had been removed over the years, which 'will return a greater degree of privacy to the individual desks, in addition to the physical barrier which this health crisis now warrants', said Zsembery. — AP
Zsembery holds a sign while speaking with colleagues including interior designer Stephanie Jones, left, about the positioning of safe distancing reminders at the firms offices in Boston. — AP
Interior designer Stephanie Jones at the design firm Bergmeyer putting up a safe distancing reminder indicating one way foot traffic to a cubicle at the firms offices in Boston. When workers around the world eventually return to their desks, they’ll find myriad adjustments by their companies to reflect the post-pandemic 'new normal' way of life, executives and experts say. — AP
Zsembery at the design firm Bergmeyer removing chairs in a conference room with a new designated maximum occupancy of two people, at the firms offices, in Boston. — AP
Zsembery at the design firm Bergmeyer, positions chairs in a conference room with a designated maximum occupancy of two people, at the firms offices, in Boston. Out of concern for the coronavirus Bergmeyer is restructuring the way its workspace is used, including reinstalling dividers on 85 desks at its Boston office that had been removed over the years. — AP
