Covid will force us to reimagine the office. Let's get it right this time | Kerstin Sailer

When offices in the UK closed in mid-March and companies instructed their staff to work from home – without access to their usual materials and tools, their physical workspace or to many of their colleagues – people already sensed that this was an unprecedented experiment. No one was prepared for this, not even the banks, with their elaborate business-continuity plans focused on terrorist attacks but not on completely avoiding human contact.

Fuck that. No commute? No need for bullshit conversations, endless meetings, sharp outfits, constant interruptions, etc. Nah. Remote work should've been on the cards years ago. God bless covid.

Become more like battery hens you mean?

Yes, let's - I really miss my office...

There is very little research on working from home because until the pandemic it was often frowned upon. Why not think about a combined approach: working in your own home space with large communal office or outdoor spaces for creativity & social gatherings

Why pay for the facilities of an office when you can get people working from home for the cost of a broadband connection? No real reason for the productive workers in lockdown to return.

No, it won't.

yeah they place office workers together in conjoined cubicles in horizontal rows, desk space 3ft wide, rows 5ft apart - like a 3rd world sweat shop factory now they have to figure out where they’re going to get the extra space from to social distance!- smdh - Live & learn!

'More successful than anyone could have predicted.' Except those who had studied remote working and all those who had read their work. Future office-based working should include satellite offices: better for the environment, health, local economies...

The office is never coming back in many industries.

Do we really need a central office?

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