Redesign Workplace amid Pandemic Top Office Design Trends in 2021
Pandemic has affected our lives and changed the way we live, work and even eat. Today, companies from all around the world are facing a huge problem - how to bring their employees back to the workplace? We listened to them and here we are with some solutions. Companies can only bring their employees back to the office by providing extra safety and Re-designing Workplaces. In this 4-minute blog, you’ll know how you can bring your valuable employees back to your workplace by following new office design trends in 2021.
Whether you’ve got a small business or you run a large company, you must be thinking about re-conceptualizing your office so that your employees feel safe while working. As a reputed company, you don’t want to risk anyone’s life and you want to make sure that every employee coming to the office remain safe without compromising with the work efficiency.
So, what can be done? How can you re-structure your office in order to run your company safely? Don’t worry. We’ll tell you the ideas you can follow that suits your office and requirement.
Let’s get started. Look at the following office trends that companies can choose during the pandemic in 2021.
- Open Space Offices
The idea of Open Space Office is not new, it has been adopted very well in the workplace industry. One of the best prevention of COVID is Social Distancing among employees and open space offices help you in achieving that goal.
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Open Space Offices comes with more advantages. It helps in promoting collaborative work culture, reducing work stress on employees and thus your company grow.
This type of offices also gives your employees a space to breakout from work - that they don’t get in traditional cubicle-based offices. You can further take more advantage by creating custom designs in the space that reflects your brand.
- Workplaces that brings you close to Nature
Everybody loves Nature. But, how many of them actually get to live close to Nature? Very few. The pandemic has taught us that the more we come closer to nature, the healthier our life becomes.
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So, what can you do to add that Natural Vibe to your office?
A lot of things, really.
Re-design your office so that the interior space gets more daylight.
How would you do that?
You can add more windows in your office or workplace to get maximum sunlight. And if you already have windows, try to set up your office furniture in a way that your employees get direct sunlight for the maximum time possible.
Take greenery to the next level by making a separate area for plantation. Even if you have a small office, bring tiny desk plants to bring positivity and a natural vibe in your workplace lifestyle. Not only the natural vibe, but it will enhance the aesthetics of your office.
Companies experiment with unique ways of incorporating nature into their workplace. Modern features like living walls, seating area with plant life, plant partitions in desks, indoor office gardens etc. are new trends to adopt when you’re looking for a green workplace.
According to Human Space Report by Interface, Green Workplaces help reduce the stress level of employees and report a higher level of employee’s well being.
So, what are you waiting for? Bring Nature to your office and give your employees a healthier and better place to work in.
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Install Dividers or Individual Partitions on Desks
Companies install different types of workstations in their office. Some offices may have linear workstations, while others may have parallel workstations where employee sit opposite to each other. These offices should try to install a partition or divider on workstations to help prevent direct social contact.
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Partitions also act as a sneeze guard that prevent droplets from one person to travel to the next person. You can also think about using fabric-wrapped MDF screens, which is more cost-effective as compared to other options.
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Adopt Sustainable and Modern Features
One of the major concerns in the current pandemic is to minimize touch points in the office.
Now, the question is- What are the various touchpoints in an office and how to make them touch-less?
- Door-handles / Using sensor-activated doors
Every person coming to the office will touch door handles and we don’t want them to touch it. Right?
So, what’s the solution?
Use sensor-activated doors in your office and make entries in your office contact-less. And if you don’t want to install such doors, keep your office doors open till you go back home so that people coming to office don’t need to touch anything.
- Lights and taps
Lights and taps are also one of the common things that people will touch.
So, what to do?
Replace your traditional taps with sensor-activated taps. You can also do this for lights but if you are little money-conscious, you can simply make a rule that only one person assigned (preferable office boy) can touch lights. In this way, your employees will be safe and prevented from unnecessary contacts.
After all, the ultimate goal for most of the companies is - to maintain social distancing among employees and make the workplace more touchless. By using modern features in your office, you can easily reduce the touchpoints and keep your employees safe.
We all wish this pandemic to go forever but until it’s not gone, we have to take care of each and every one. There is a lot to see in 2021. It doesn’t matter if the pandemic is with us in 2021, the office trends you just read above will only benefit your company. Choose design and furniture for your office that allows you to work more productively with added functionality and natural vibe.
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